Word: orders
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Last week's news from the Vatican announced that His Holiness had bestowed The Grand Cross of the Order of St. Gregory the Great upon Nicholas Frederic
Brady, Manhattan financier. Mr. & Mrs. Brady have been in Italy, and their U. S. friends could only cable them their applause, for it was most fitting that of the handful of papal knightly orders that of St. Gregory the Great go to Mr. Brady. Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846) created the order in 1831 and put it under the patronage of that first and greater Gregory (c. 540-604)-to reward the civil and military virtues of the subjects of the Papal States. But now, when the Papal domain is only a patch of land at Rome, the knightly requirements...
Only two knightly orders of the Papal court surpass Mr. Brady's Order of St. Gregory the Great. They...
...Supreme Order of Christ instituted in 1319 as an active religious order for Portuguese knights and preserved today only as a titular papal honor. Though no U. S. personage holds the cross of this order, others honored with it include onetime (1919-22) President Dr. Epitacio Pessoa of Brazil and Prince Felix of Bourbon-Parma, Consort of Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg (TIME, April...
...Order of Pins IX intended fittingly to reward noble and conspicuous deeds meritorious before the Church and stimulating in their effect upon society; conferred also upon non-Catholics. Sole U. S. member is James Joseph Phelan of Boston, created Knight Commander...