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...Thursday), prime defender of the faith (Catholic Essays, St. Francis of Assisi). Author Chesterton gave a series of lectures on Victorian literature and history. Last week, when it was time to pack up and leave South Bend, Ind., he became effusively grateful at the recognition with which the institution recognized his labors: an honorary LL. D., given by the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, president, at a special convocation of the faculty...
When the marriage was first proposed Bulgarian officials mollified the Vatican by agreeing to consider the Roman Catholic wedding in Assisi the real wedding, promised that the Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox ceremony in Sofia would be merely a service of benediction. In Sofia last week the Patriarch Stefan talked differently...
Signed by Duke Borea d'Olmo, invitations to the nuptials of Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and Princess Giovanna of Italy bade the guests come last week to "the Cathedral of Assisi," whereas the appointed place had actually been from the first the Church of St. Francis at the other end of the town (TIME...
Despite Duke Borea d'Olmo centenarian zeal, the three royal special trains were an hour late in reaching Assisi; a thunderstorm burst; Princess Giovanna dropped her bridal bouquet into the gutter; Tsar Boris was soaked to the skin; during the ceremony tear after tear coursed down the cheeks of the bride...
...years there has never been such a royal wedding. As the bridal party left the church the rain changed to hail, but Duke Borea d'Olmo is invincible. "Yes, there was hail," his spokesman admitted to correspondents, "but that is not unlucky. We understand that the peasants of Assisi consider that St. Francis was pleased. They think of the hailstones as a sort of supernatural confetti, confetti di San Fracesco...