Word: rota
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Gaetano Cardinal di Lai, 75, after a year and half of illness initiated by pneumonia. He was long a part of the very core of Roman Catholic Church administration and jurisdiction-as secretary of the Consistorial Congregation, as one of the 12 members of the Rota (Church supreme court), as one of the six Cardinal Bishops of the Hierarchy...
...Eucharistic Conference at Sydney, Australia, may wander about the states all he pleases. He will not arrive at San Francisco until after the election. Prince Rebuffed. The Governor (mayor) of Rome, Prince Ludovico Spada Potenziani, was refused an annullment of his marriage by the Tribunal of the Sacred Rota,* which rejected his contention that he is not really the husband of Princess Potenziani because their marriage ceremony was "performed without her full consent...
...Marriage Annulled. Count de Janze and Countess Alice Silverthorne de Janze, onetime Chicagoan. Their divorce (1927) was followed by annulment by the Holy Rota, after the Countess' shooting of Raymond Vincent de Trafford, who had refused to marry...
Married. Senator Guglielmo Marconi, 53, famed wireless inventor; to Countess Maria Christina Bezzi-Scala, in Rome. Senator Marconi's marriage to Hon. Beatrice O'Brien, daughter of late Baron Inchiquin, was annulled this year by the Rota Tribunal...
...Jersey, Inventor Thomas Alva Edison approached his 80th birthday (Feb. 11) ; in Bermuda, Dr. Francis Landey Pattton, 84, onetime (1888-1902) president of Princeton, celebrated his birthday; lectured to the local Rota,ry club. Dr. William Williams Keen, 90, of Philadelphia, also celebrated his birthday. John Davison Rockefeller,* 87, played golf in Florida with Soldier Adalbert Ames, 91, last Union Army gen eral. And in Detroit, Soldier Roland, 100, came forward. To memoralize the death of Empress Charlotte, he had put on all his medals, for once he had been a colonel of lancers under her hus band, Maximilian...