Word: annunziata
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...Majesty Vittorio Emanuele III, King of Italy, Chief and Sovereign of the Supreme Order of the Annunziata, Hon. Colonel in the Spanish and Hon. General in the Swedish Army, Hon. Doctor of Laws (University of Philadelphia), sought last week through representatives before the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York to prove that he is the heir of one Antonio Comincio, a Manhattan peddler who died in 1925 leaving an estate...
King and Dictator call each other "cousin" because they are both members of the Order of Annunziata, all members of which are "cousins of the king" by a pretty fiction of Italian...
...general of the Pope's Armies. Out of his automobile stepped short-legged Vittorio Emanuele III, in the grey-green and silver dress uniform of a field marshal. From his hat sprouted a white aigrette, round his neck hung the flashing gold chain of the Collar of the Annunziata, on his breast blazed medals. Towering a good head and shoulders above him stood Queen Elena...
Across his breast was the sash of the Order of St. Maurice and St. Lazarus; he wore too the Cross of Malta and Collar of the Annunziata, which gives its wearer the right to call Italy's King "cousin." Arrayed in such dignity but brusque as ever, Benito Mussolini last week strode up the marble stairway that leads to the damasked Hall of Congregations in the Vatican.* In his pocket was a Bank of Italy check for 750 million lire ($39,225,000) and a certificate for one billion lire ($52,300,000) of Italian State bonds. In the Hall...
...Sister Annunziata, a d'Orobelli without beauty or dot, had long since been hidden in a convent where she devoted her life to the adoration of Saint Francis and the service of the poor. It was in laying out the ravishing body of poor Miss Annie Spragg that she beheld upon it the miracle of the Stigmata. The sadness of Annunziata's life was turned to joy at this sign from her patron saint...