Word: francesco
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Giovanni Pertinax Morosini was born in Venice nearly 100 years ago when the city belonged to Austria. Who his parents were the record does not say, but he always liked to believe that he was descended from the magnificent Doge Francesco Morosini (1618-94), Commander-in-chief of the Venetian Navy...
...Monsignor Spellman's side stood his two assistant consecrators, Monsignor Francesco Borgongini Duca, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, and Monsignor Giuseppe Pizzardo, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. A choir sang. As Monsignor Spell man approached, it hushed; the assistant consecrators bowed slightly. Petitioning that Monsignor Spellman be made a bishop, Monsignor Borgongini Duca gave to Cardinal Pacelli the apostolic mandate. Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat. Catechized, Monsignor Spellman was assisted up the steps to the altar, where he kissed the episcopal ring...
...money. Traditional practice in Europe (and lately in some U. S. dioceses) is to set a box of candles by every shrine, let the faithful help themselves and leave a small offering in return. Last week this practice was banned in the diocese of Rome by its vicar general, Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani. After July 1 there is to be no crass candle-traffic within the churches. Candles may be burnt as before but it will be less convenient to give a friend a coin and say "Burn a candle for me." Also, there is to be no more photographing...
...Providence, because Barber Philip Reitano shaved off Francesco Mastrostefano's moustache, which had luxuriated "continuously and undipped for . . . more than 47 years," Francesco Mastrostefano sued Barber Reitano for $2,000. He alleged that Barber Reitano, "well knowing that said plaintiff did not wish the end of his said moustache cut. and wilfully and maliciously intending to cause said plaintiff disfigurement, humiliation, ridicule and mental and physical suffering and discomfort, did then and there with force and arms assault said plaintiff and laid hold of him and, placing a towel over his eyes to blindfold him, did . . . cut off both...
Cantari alla Madrigalesca for String Quartet-1931 Francesco Malipiero...