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Then one day King Alfonso XIII visited a beach resort near Santander, and Father Jesus appealed to him. The King visited the caves, admired the drawings and heard Father Carballo discourse on their antiquity. In 1924 the King financed a board of archaeological research, with Father Jesus as technical adviser...
...16th century, ten extra days had already piled up. In 1582 Pope Gregory XIII produced a solution: the ten days were dropped at once. Then he also decreed the dropping of three leap-year days every 400 years. With these adjustments the new calendar year was only 26 seconds ahead of the sun which means that each 3,323 years one day must be dropped. (Impending drop: 4905 A.D.) By the 18th century, only Russia, Protestant Sweden and England were holdouts against the "Popish" calendar. In 1752 the elegant Lord Chesterfield persuaded Parliament to give in to Gregory...
...keeps Pope Leo XIII's encyclical, Rerum Novarum, at hand in his Pittsburgh office, and he often makes a most significant comment on this Catholic outline for industrial justice. Says Murray: "My grandparents had these ideas before Leo wrote them." Like Pope Pius XI (who brought Leo XIII up to date in 1931), Murray accepts the social and spiritual importance of the worker's vocation, his job. Good wages are important because good pay gives a steelworker standing, dignity and significance in his community. But to Murray, a good union is important for more things than getting...
Died. Marie Odet Jean Armand de Chapelle de Jumilhac, 76, Due de Richelieu, the title conferred by Louis XIII on his Prime Minister, Cardinal Armand Jean du Plessis, who passed it on to a grandnephew, Jean de Vignerot, ancestor of the last Due de Richelieu; after a month's illness; in Manhattan...
...Spanish national dancing since Franco, gave their main applause to George Balanchine's new version of the classic Swan Lake. Oldsters in the audience had a dim memory, at least, of the classic style from the time when Diaghilev's Ballets Russes visited the Spain of Alfonso XIII. But they were more puzzled than pleased by such contemporary psychological pieces as Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. Balanchine himself noted "a vast difference from the fiery enthusiasm I see at bullfights here...