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From Vatican City came a report that talk of sainthood for Christopher Columbus is still going on. The movement began, said the New York Herald Tribune, more than 100 years ago, when a study of Columbus, published by Count Roselly de Lorgues, attracted the attention of Pope Pius IX. The Archbishop of Bordeaux later petitioned the Pope to begin the process of beatification of Columbus on the basis of his "humility, obedience, gentleness, resignation, charity, conformity to the divine will" and other virtues. Through the years, added the Tribune, the canonization of Columbus has been held up mostly because...
...Accepted church doctrine explains, in the words of Pope Pius IX, that no one should "arrogate to himself" the right to "put limits o the divine mercy, which is infinite...
Invitation to Music (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Recordings of the Danish State Radio Symphony, conducted by Denmark's King Frederick IX...
Born. To Phumiphon Adundet (Rama IX), 24, Massachusetts-born, jazz-loving King of Siam, and Queen Sirikit, 20, daughter of a Siamese diplomat: their second child, first son and crown prince. The birth of an heir to the Thai throne called for a booming 21-gun salute, traditional conch-shell music, and the proclamation of a national holiday...
...IX. Thou shalt not covet a taste beyond thy husband's income...