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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...
The ones that did come went through their traditional devotions, joined by a papal legate, ten bishops, hundreds of priests and thousands of faithful Frenchmen (Stes.-Maries is a shrine not only to gypsies but to Catholics). Rain whipped across the swampy, sandy Camargue plain; in front of the fortresslike...
But Togliatti had a second motive. This had been a supreme opportunity to display himself as arbiter of Assembly decisions. The Kremlin's legate had proved to De Gasperi and the Christian Democrats that-alone-they could not carry off one of their most cherished objectives. Socialist Pietro Nenni...