Hermine Speier in the Palazzo Apostolico |
Hermine Speier (1898 to 1989)
In 1934, Hermine Speier became the first female employee in the Vatican in the modern sense of employee with a salary and a pension plan. She wasn’t a nun, and more surprisingly, she wasn’t even Catholic.
Indian President Prathibha Patil on State Visit to Switzerland
Indian President Prathibha Patil has been on a two days state visit in Switzerland. She started the official program of her visit in Bern (seat of the Swiss federal government) and continued through Lausanne to Geneva from where she left for a state visit to Austria.
Prathibha Patil and Micheline Calmy-Rey |
Pity the Middleton Family
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