Word: nuncios
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...uttermost parts of the world goes news of the election of Achille Cardinal Ratti, Archbishop of Milan, to be Rome's 261st Pope. Facts: he is 64, stocky, a onetime mountain-climber; famed as Papal Nuncio to seething Poland; a sober, scholarly cleric; a politically-minded, potent man of action...
Visitors, including a number of white-robed chiefs from Morocco, crowded the Cortes chamber. The diplomatic corps, headed by the purple-robed Papal Nuncio, was there in all its gold lace and feathers...
While the Spanish people feel respect and deference for spiritual orders, they have no use for church politics, always considered the Papal Nuncio in Madrid as an intruder and the clericalism of the Crown was what caused the rapid spread of liberalism and the consequent overthrow of the Monarchy...
Minister de los Rios filed formal protest with the papal nuncio at Madrid...
...days later beloved King Albert, Hero-Burgomaster Max of Brussels, the corps Diplomatique (with one exception), and the flower of the Belgian Army followed in solemn procession a gun carriage upon which rested a coffin within which was an urn containing ashes. The Papal Nuncio and Cardinal van Roey and the Belgian Army's Catholic chaplains kept their skirts clear of the funeral. The ashes were those of Lieut.- General Bernheim, during the War Belgian generalissimo, cremated by his own express command...