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Show The Pope's nVw secretary of state, Cardinal Mer- ' ry del Yal, has not only an Irish grandmother, but is likewise of Irish origin, the Merry family, like that of O'Donuell, Duke of Tetuan, and scores of-others of-others among the Castilian aristocracy, having emigrated from the Emerald Isle to Spain at the time of the overthrow of King James II.. Cardinal Merry del Yal has also in his veins the blood of Christopher Columbus, and his cousin, Count Beno-mar, Beno-mar, who was for many years Spanish envoy, at the Court of "Berlin, used to be very proud oNthis ancestry, an-cestry, bearing, indeed, the name of Columbus. ", |
