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Died. Charles Richard John Spencer-Churchill, 9th Duke of Marlborough, 62, of an intestinal disorder; in London. In 1895 he married Consuelo Vanderbilt; in 1926, five years after her divorce from the Duke and her marriage to Jacques Balsan. Consuelo Vanderbilt applied to the Rota for an annulment of the earlier marriage on the grounds that she had been coerced into it by her mother, the late Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont. The annulment was granted; Protestant ministers throughout the land objected acrimoniously. The Marquess of Blandford, 36. eldest son of the Duke and Consuelo Vanderbilt, inherits the title...
Monsignor Massimo Massimi, dean and examiner of the Sacred Roman Rota (Church law court) published the Vatican's first want advt. He needs a priest who has been graduated in canon law and theology, who knows French, who can typewrite...
...September 26, 1814 three British ships, the "Carnation", "Rota", and "Plantagenet" came into the harbor, and their crews put out in rowboats to try to board the American privateer by surprise. They were repulsed, and half of the 400 English sailors were killed...
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...
...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...