Word: romes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Catholic Church, as your editorial so positively states? Any intelligent Catholic reading the card knows at once such procedure is unauthorized. Apropos of that card, may I state categorically: 1) Mr. Leccisi is a private individual. Neither officially nor unofficially does he represent the Vatican. He is "from Rome" only in the sense that he has at one time lived in that city, not that he was sent to the United States by the Vatican. The authorities of the Vatican do not know of his presence here. 2) Mr. Leccisi is merely an honorary Papal Chamberlain. As such...
...George William Cardinal Mundelein, Chicago, was the first American to be so honored. He received the Grand Cross in Rome in 1924 (TIME...
...Rome it was announced that His Holiness Pope Pius XI had decided to create four new Cardinals, all non-Italians...
...ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons...
...BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality grown enormous through the grandeur of the empire which they destroyed. In writing about them, it is hard to make them merely human; some aura of the supernatural clings to the absurd magnificence of their palaces and their crimes. Now the wildest of them all, Nero, the Bloody Poet, is imagined...