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Alfonso Xiii.,
King of Spain; born in Madrid, May 17, 1886, after his father's death son of the late King Alfonso XII.
and Maria Christina, daughter of the late Carl Ferdinand, Archduke of Austria.
His mother became Queen Regent during his minority, and after the destruction of the Spanish fleet in Manila Bay she made strenuous though unavailing efforts to induce both the Pope and the principal countries of Europe to intervene in the hope of speedily closing the war between the United States and Spain.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Arbitration, international Court of, (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Baraga , Frederick , 1797 -1868 (search)
Baraga, Frederick, 1797-1868
Clergyman; born in Carniola, Austria, June 29, 1797; in 1830 determined to devote his life to the conversion of Indians in the United States; settled among the Ottawas in Michigan.
In 1856 he was appointed Bishop of Marquette.
In addition to translating prayer-books, hymn-books, catechisms, etc., into the Indian language, he wrote in German the History, character, manners, and customs of the North American Indians.
He died in Marquette, Mich., Jan. 19, 1868.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Burlingame , Anson , 1820 - (search)
Cahenslyism,
A movement among Roman Catholic immigrants in the United States to secure separate ecclesiastical organization for each nationality or language, and in particular for Germans; named after Peter Paul Cahensly, Austro-Hungarian envoy to the Vatican, and a leader of the St. Raphael Society in Germany and Austria for promoting Roman Catholic interests among emigrants.
About 1884, eighty-two German priests in the United States petitioned the Pope for help in perpetuating their native tongue and usages in the diocese of St. Louis.
Mo., and in 1886 petitioned again that German Catholics be obliged to join German-speaking churches, and be forbidden attending those speaking English.
Receiving no open answer, they formed, in 1887, a society which sent representatives that year to the St. Raphael Society at Lucerne, Switzerland, and enlisted the cooperation of Herr Cahensly.
They also secured the co-operation of many German bishops and priests in the United States, and esp
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Centennial Exhibition , (search)
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States . (search)