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...Vanguardia's strange trouble began one Sunday last June during 10 o'clock Mass at Barcelona's San Ildefonso Church. Enraged that the sermon was being delivered in Catalan instead of Castilian, a plump, balding little man protested to a curate, left his card, and stormed out of the church shouting: "Catalan-lleno de mierda! The name on the card was that of Luis de Galinsoga, a Galician who has been La Vanguardia's Franco-appointed publisher since...
...Saint Ildefonso used to scold me and punish me lots of times. He would sit me on the bare floor and make me eat with the cats of the monastery. These cats were such rascals that they took advantage of my penitence. They drove me mad stealing my choicest morsels. It did no good to chase them away. But I found a way of coping with the beasts in order to enjoy my meals...
...Psychologist. No clearer exposition of the principle of conditioned reflexes has ever been written. As every Russian schoolboy knows, reflex conditioning was unknown until it was discovered by Russian Physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936). El Capellán de la Virgen, a play about the life of Saint Ildefonso (606-667), Archbishop of Toledo, was written by the Spanish Dramatist Lope de Vega about...
...Church. But Perón deferred action on Remorino's tendered resignation for a while, possibly to keep the herding from looking like a stampede. Last week, with Remorino disabled by a liver ailment, Perón at last decided to act. Into the ministerial chair slipped Lawyer Ildefonso Félix Cavagna Martínez, 50, lately a special ambassador charged with working out Perón's proposed economic hookups with neighboring Chile, Paraguay and Bolivia...
Msgr. Giovanni Battista Montini, Pius' most trusted collaborator, who throughout the Pope's illness has been doing more and more of the Pontiff's work, was appointed to the vital Archbishopric of Milan, succeeding the late Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster. At the same time, cardinals and bishops received new, sharp instructions designed to remedy what the Pope regards as creeping weaknesses in the church. Among the Pope's chief complaints...