THE CHURCH IN SPAIN.
STATE DECREE ON MARRIAGE. COUNTERED BY ARCHBISHOP. United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright. (Received Aug. i, 9.30 a.m.) MADRID, Aug. i. In response to a Government decree recognising only civil marriage. Archbishop Eijo, of ’.Madrid, has broadcast a decree that such marriages mean living in sin and any offspring are cannonlcally Illegitimate. People civilly married are not eligible to act as Godparents or for burial in consecrated ground- ■<
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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71THE CHURCH IN SPAIN. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18703, 1 August 1932, Page 7
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