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...himself left Sofia incognito?left behind a joyous and expectant people, thousands of whom had put Princess Giovanna's picture in one corner of their windowpanes and Tsar Boris' in the other. Sofia cafés were hastily renamed Konditorei Giovanna. Delighted Bulgarian editors "learned on highest authority" that Pope Pius XI had agreed to the following compromise: all offspring of Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna except her first-born male would be reared as Roman Catholics; but the premier male, as Crown Prince of Bulgaria, would espouse the Eastern Orthodox religion in order to comply with the Bulgarian Constitution, which specifies...
...last slim chance that the bet could be won seemed to loom when Tsar Boris went officially to Rome (TIME, Jan. 13) to attend the wedding of Belgian Roman Catholic Princess Marie José to the heir of Italy. An audience was granted to His Majesty by Pope Pius XI. The Holy Father listened perhaps to amorous pleadings and arguments by the world's only Bachelor Tsar. But last week the bet was definitely lost. Ruefully at Sofia, His Excellency the Italian Minister?not a sure- thing better after all?drew his check for 50,000 drachma and sent it round...
...lion, Great Britain; the cock, France; so the lamb is one of the animals symbolically peculiar to the Papal State. Last week, in one of the prettiest ceremonies of the Catholic Church, two very special lambs received the very special blessing of His Holiness Pope Pius...
...time of the Lateran Treaties a favorite German cartoon showed Signer Benito Mussolini on his knees before Pope Pius XI exclaiming, while he suited the action to the word, "I kiss your toe, Papa...
Died. Count Fermo Ratti, brother of Pope Pius XI; at Rome; after an illness of two days...