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...Order of St. Sylvester, reputedly the oldest and once most prized honor, of which there are no U. S. holders. In 1926 Pius XI created His Excellency the Hon. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, President of the Negro Republic of Liberia, Knight Grand Cross of the Order...
...made jokes. Now and then he quietly put his arm around the slender, highstrung girl of 24, who, on the bright Saturday forenoon, became Mrs. Francis Joseph Quillinan. At the Albany Cathedral, Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes of Manhattan performed the ceremony and transmitted a special blessing from Pius XI. Afterwards, a father's natural emotions on his daughter's wedding day were merged with the recurrent emotions of a Candidate. For besides the "boys" from Tammany Hall, many a bigwig Democrat was in Albany to toast the bride and smoke a cigar and have a chat-Boss Frank...
...massive Mexican prelate who resembles in face the late, fundamentalist, teetotaling William Jennings Bryan, strode into the Vatican, last week, and climbed beamingly upstairs for a two-hour audience with The Most Blessed Father, Achilla Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XL The man from Mexico, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, handed solemnly to the Supreme Pontiff a voluminous report signed by the dignitaries of the Mexican Episcopate, who are now in exile at San Antonio, Texas. The report states, as Archbishop Ruiz later revealed, that there has never been a more favorable time than the present to harmonize the strained...
...Pope Pius XI, was awakened at dawn by an astonishing clatter of swords and the sound of soldiers' voices disturbing the peaceful courtyards of the Vatican. It was, Pius XI remembered suddenly, his 71st birthday. The "Noble Guard," and the rest of the Papal army were preparing a little military maneuver for him to review. The Pope arose, said mass, reviewed his tiny regiments, received thousands of congratulatory messages and reflected with pleasure that Italian Catholic school children were enjoying a holiday. Later, 50 newly pledged U. S. priests kissed his hand...
Last week, Polar Pilgrim Nobile planted the flag of Italy upon the North Pole, dropped upon its icy wastes the cross given into his hands by Pope Pius, conducted the first religious ceremony ever held on top of the world and, warmed by the glow of an object accomplished, headed back through icy winds toward Kings Bay. It had taken him 19 hours to reach the Pole. The first 17 hours of the return trip brought many messages to the base ship Citta di Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile...