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...Eminence was once Domestic Prelate to Pope Leo XIII whose Encyclical, Rerum Novarum ("Concerning New Things") was the basis for Pope Pius XI's new encyclical, Quadragesima Anno ("In the 40th Year" after Leo's). His authoritative word was as follows...
...Jesting at the corpulence of ex-Queen Victoria Eugenie, Madrid's leading Socialist Daily El Socialista mocked last week: "But we hear from Mr. Bourbon [Alfonso XIII] that (in exile) the Queen is losing weight...
Thus people realized, last week, the unique continuity of Grand Inquisitor Torquemada's work in Spain. Queen Isabella was no more and possibly less pious than His Most Catholic Majesty King Alfonso XIII, now ousted (TIME, April 27). In every crisis Alfonso XIII turned for intercession to the Holy Virgin. When a Cabinet was sworn in by His Majesty it was always before the Crucifix and two twinkling candles (TIME, March 2). He never permitted Protestants to build places of worship in Spain in the form of a church or to advertise or indicate by any sign the places where...
King Alphonso XIII of Spain, whose name had been put on a ticket presumably for a joke. He got a $500 consolation prize...
Engaged. The Infanta Beatriz Isabel Federica Alfonsa Eugenia Cristina Maria Teresa Bienvenida Ladislaa, 21, daughter of King Alfonso XIII; and Don Alvaro Antonio Carlos Felipe Fernando of Orleans, 21, son of her father's cousin; at Fontainebleau, France...