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Spain's last reigning King was Alfonso XIII, who voluntarily left Spain in 1931 in the face of nationwide republican election victories, and died in exile. His son, the present Pretender, angered Franco by demanding that the dictator step down after winning Spain's bloody Civil War. Franco later declared Spain a monarchy, but the throne was left empty as young Prince Juan Carlos grew up in exile in Italy and Switzerland. The young prince returned to Spain to be educated at Madrid's St. Isidro high school, and word went out that Franco intended that after...
...Tuesday, May 27 MWF 12 VI Thursday, May 22 MWF 1 VII Saturday, May 24 MWF 2 VIII Wednesday, May 28 MWF 3 IX Wednesday, May 28 MWF 4 X Tuesday, June 3 TTS 8 XI Monday, May 26 TTS 9 XII Saturday, May 31 TTS 10 XIII Monday, June 2 TTS 11 XIV Saturday, May 24 TTS 12 XV Tuesday, June 3 TTS 1 XVI Tuesday, June 3 TTS 2 XVII Thursday, May 22 TTS 3 XVIII Thursday...
...Banco di Roma, and pharmaceutical, shipping and piping companies. In 1946 the Central American Republic of Costa Rica appointed him envoy to the Vatican State, upgraded him to ambassador ten years later. Another papal relative is also a diplomat at the Vatican: Count Stanislao Pecci, grandnephew of Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the Sovereign Military Order of the Knights of Malta...
...church!" and "Colonna for the people!" For more than a millennium the princely Orsinis have stood firmly beside the Vatican; tradition credits them with five Popes, 18 saints, 40 cardinals. Eleven Orsini women became queens; Orsini men married twelve daughters of kings and emperors. In 1725 Pope Benedict XIII sought to end the continuous feuding between Orsini and Colonna by ordering that the leader of each house should alternate as his Prince Assistant at Mass and other ceremonies of the church, a dignity that ranked them just below a cardinal...
...Thurs., Jan. 23 VI, M 1 Wed., Jan. 22 VII, M 2 Sat., Jan. 25 VIII, M 3 Sat., Jan. 18 IX, M 4 Sat., Jan. 18 X, T 8 Tues., Jan. 28 XI, T 9 Fri., Jan. 24 XII, T 10 Tues., Jan. 21 XIII, T 11 Fri., Jan. 17 XIV, T 12 Sat., Jan. 25 XV, T 1 Tues., Jan. 28 XVI, T 2 Tues., Jan. 28 XVII, T 3 Wed., Jan. 22 XVIII...