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...Victoria's daughters, Alice and Beatrice, carried the disease to their German offspring. Through one of Alice's daughters, it passed to the Czarevitch Alexis (murdered by the Bolsheviks in 1918); through Beatrice's daughter to sons of Spain's Alfonso XIII...
Triumph of Truth. Not until the reign of Pius IX (1846-78) and his successor Leo XIII did the Ecclesiastical Academy begin to become the major source of church talent and brains that it is today. From all over the world promising young men are now brought there for two years of juridical and diplomatic study before going on for their practical training in the State Secretariat...
Exam group i--June 7, ii--June 6, iii--June 4, iv--May 31, v--June 8, vi--May 29, vii--June 1, viii--June 5, ix--June 1, x--June 12, xi--June 2, xii--May 28, xiii--June 11, xiv--June 9, xv--June 12, xvi--June 7, xvii--May 29, xviii--June...
...lose weight on our diet," says Father Moore cheerfully. "I've lost about 15 pounds since my Benedictine days. But we couldn't be healthier. Pope Leo XIII once ordered a less rigorous regime, but a Carthusian delegation, all 80 to 90 years old, changed his mind. If the delegation lived so long, the life couldn't be too hard, he decided...
Died. Alvaró de Figueroa y Torres, Count de Romanones, 87, "el travieso conde" (the mischievous count), one of Spain's richest grandees, thrice Premier under the late King Alfonso XIII; in Madrid. A sturdy Monarchist, whose Punch-like profile was once a symbol of Bourbon Spain for European political cartoonists, Count de Romanones retired from active politics in 1931, soon after the Republicans forced the King into exile...