Word: alcantara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seville prepared for Europe's most glamorous wedding of World War II-Dom Pedro d'Alcantara d'Orléans & Bragança was marrying Princess Esperanza Rocio de Bourbon-Orléans. Already the city was as jampacked with Portuguese and Spanish bluebloods (40 princes and princelings, without counting lesser aristocrats) as the Cathedral of Santa Maria de la Sede at Christmas midnight mass. Most of them were royal refugees. Some, like the Count of Paris, Pretender to the throne of France, had come from Madrid. Others, like the widowed Princess Françoise of Greece...
...English Seminary in Spain, Chisholm was given to somewhat worldly high spirits. "Deputed to read aloud in the refectory he smuggled in and substituted for The Life of St. Peter of Alcantara a ... tract entitled When Eva Stole the Sugar" He also set fire to the newspaper Father Despard was reading in the common room. "Asked why ... he laughed and answered, 'The Devil finds work for idle hands...