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...greatest liturgical composer who ever lived and one of the musical wonders of the ages was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose lacy counterpoint was the pride of the Vatican under Pope Sixtus V (1585-90). The best U.S. interpreter of Palestrina is an Irish-American named Father William J. Finn, former choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who has behind him nearly 50 years of high musical achievement...
...Pacelli was called to Rome, made a Cardinal and two months later Vatican Secretary of State-the official of whom Sixtus V once wrote: "He must know everything, understand everything -but he must say nothing...
...days after the death in 1922 of his father-Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs-little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius Ignaz, known to the world by his third name, lay ill of a fever in the tiny, damp-walled, smoky house of exile in Madeira to which the family had been banished. He called for his "Treasure Box"-a stationery case in which he kept pictures of his family, pressed Hungarian flowers, a lump of his native soil, a silver coin his father had given...
...Emperor Karl's pitiful attempt to come back in 1921. Last week Archduke Otto remained safely in his mouldy castle in a wood near Brussels, refused ail interviews. His mother, the Empress Zita, now a dour-faced widow, was in Paris at the bedside of her brother, Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma, desperately ill with an infected heart. The body of Otto's father, the Emperor Karl, lay in a rusty vault on the island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss Heimvehr Government is most likely...
More dubious are the theories that sunspots affect the habits and numbers of animals, cause droughts, tidal waves, earthquakes, tornadoes. The withering drought of 1929 was close to a sunspot peak, but there were other drought causes-light snows, early thaws-the preceding winter. California's Father Jerome Sixtus Ricard, S. J., "Padre of the Rains," had astonishing success in predicting weather by sunspots, but Father Jerome is dead now and his secret seems to have died with...