Amador Ledger-Dispatch, 23 December 1904 — HIS APOSTOLIC MAJESTY. [ARTICLE]

HIS APOSTOLIC MAJESTY.

Title of the Emperor of Austria as

King: of Hungary.

The title of "apostolic majesty" Is bovno by the emperor of Austria as kin's of Hungary.

Unnsnry was ruled "by dukes from i(s coiiijr.est by tlie Mn;:y:irs to the yei'.r KXtO, i:-o regal title being assumed first by Vaik, whose education had boon intrusted by his father, Geyza, who had married a Christian princess, to Adalbert, bishop of Prague.' On succeeding hit father Vaik embraced and established Christianity, applied for au:l received from Pope Sylvester 11. the title of "apostolic king," was crpwned as Stephen I. and afterward known as St. Stephen.'

The title was renewed by Clement XIII. in 17." iS and, though abolished in ISJS. was reassumed as "apostolic majesty" in 1851 and restricted in 1868 to the Austrian emperor in his character as king of Hungary. The privilege of fceln;: preceded by a cros.? bearer was granted with the original title. — London Standard.