Word: xiii
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholic Church maintains that in a direct conflict between the laws of Church and State, the jurisdiction of the Church prevails. Thus Pope Pius IX in a syllabus asserted: "To say in the case of conflicting laws that the civil law prevails, is an error." Pope Leo XIII in an encyclical letter wrote: "Over the mighty multitude of mankind, God has set rulers with power to govern and He has willed that one of them (the Pope) should be the head...
...King of Spain. (Alfonso XIII. He was born in 1886, six months after his father died...
...James Stuart, 17th Duque de Alba, 10th Duke of Berwick, descendant (as his name suggests) of an illegitimate son of King James II, eleven times a Grandee of Spain, and through the Larreategui family a descendant of Christopher Columbus: "As an intimate of His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII of Spain, I have repeatedly caused newsgatherers to draw from my remarks the inference that His Majesty will soon visit the U. S. Always these reports have been denied; but last week I became so expansive that correspondents left my presence with the impression that His Majesty intends to visit...
When the Alfonso XIII docked, last week, there strode down her gangplank the Count de Guelle, Marquis de Comillas, "the richest grandee of Castile" ($150,000,000. His Majesty King Alfonso XIII will visit the U. S. within a year...
...dining-rooms and salons of the Alfonso XIII are in the rich 17th Century Spanish style, hung with priceless Goya tapestries. Her promenade is finished in arabesques and tiled with Moorish mosaic recalling the Alhambra...