Word: legatee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheers for Pius. Plans for the North American College were begun by Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, who visited the U.S. in 1853-54 as special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings...
Plates of Gold. The daughter of Colonel William Boyce Thompson, who had built his fortune in South African diamonds and Montana copper, Montana-born Maggie Biddle had shared an estate estimated at $85 million on his death in 1930. She divorced a New York banker the following year and married...
Convened under the presidency of the Pope or his legate, an ecumenical council brings together the whole world's Roman Catholic hierarchy-cardinals, patriarchs, primates, archbishops and bishops, and the abbots and superiors of certain orders. The decisions of the ecumenical council, subject only to papal confirmation, are binding...
It was Mary's-and England's-tragedy, concludes Biographer Prescott, that no such simple graciousness was workable. The England she had imagined in her semi-exile in no way resembled the England she came to rule. What Mary called the "new" religion was already "old" to many...