On 3rd December last, in the course of a reception given by the Portuguese Embassy to the Holy See, to which various Portuguese clergy present in Rome, the ambassadors of the Portuguese speaking nations, Spain, and Poland, as well as some Carmelites attended, the Postulator General, Fr. Giovanni Grosso, O. Carm., received from the hands of the Portuguese Ambassador to the Holy See, S. E. Manuel Fernandes Pereira, the honor of "Grão Oficial do Ordem do Infante Dom Henrique ("Grand Officer of the Order of Prince Henry"), which the President of the Portuguese Republic, S.E. Dr. Aníbal Cavaco Silva, wished to grant in recognition and gratitude for his work done on the occasion of the canonization of St. Nuno of St. Mary. Fr. Giovanni graciously recieved the honor, considering it a credit not so much to himself, but to the Order, and in particular to Fr. Felipe Mar ia Amenós Bonet, who worked at length on the cause together with the Vice-Postulator, Fr. Francisco Rodrigues.