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...Saxon princelings followed not religion like the Egyptians, but sanitation and sentiment, which Christianity was obliged to salute as soon as the sensibilities of churchgoers objected to the smell of corporeal corruption within churches. The hearts of the Popes from Sixtus V (1590) to Benedict XV (1922) are in the church of Sts. Vincent & Anastasius in Rome...
Marco Vatasso, a young lawyer from Turin, presented his student pass at the Vatican Library last week and waited quietly while a felt-slippered attendant brought him his books. On his way down to the reading room in the Sixtus V wing, he passed a workman and one of the architects engaged in the restoration of the Library arguing excitedly in front of a pillar. Marco Vatasso worked late. It was almost dusk, almost everyone else had left the building, when he looked up to see the Library's whole massive-beamed roof crashing down on his head. The avalanche...
Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz-put them all together they make Archduke Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary-last week attained his 18th birthday and his legal majority...
...favorable to the Habsburg cause-from able, eagle-beaked Ignaz Seipel, twotime Chancellor of Austria, to the last lackadaisical Archduke-she has put to work. When Archduke Albrecht of Hungary formally renounced his aspirations to the throne two months ago (TIME, June 9), when Zita's brother, Prince Sixtus de Bourbon- Parme was given a secret and important interview with one of the most important opponents of Habsburg restoration, Dictator-King Alexander of Jugoslavia, foreign correspondents felt that the November restoration of "Little Otto" was almost certain...
Dear is the name of Jerome Sixtus Ricard to California Catholics, especially dear to his students in astronomy and meteorology in the University of Santa Clara. Famed is his name among U. S. astronomers. For he whom they were once inclined to describe as as a "mad priest" is now ranked with astronomy's important names...