Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Until the 12th Century saints were created quickly and easily by popular acclaim or by decree of local bishops. But by the decrees of Pope Urban VIII in 1625 and 1634, the process of canonization began to be tightened. Today the barriers to sainthood, both ecclesiastical and financial, are formidable. So expensive is the long church inquiry that Catholic Biographer Theodore Maynard says: ". . . It might seem that nobody (however holy) has much chance of being canonized today who does not belong to a religious order prepared to pay the costs, unless he can arouse such popular enthusiasm as to have...
...Justices assisted him from the bench. In a few minutes there was reassuring news. A physician had diagnosed the attack as "a small case of indigestion." Harlan Stone went home. There, five hours later, Death, from a massive cerebral hemorrhage, came to the 12th U.S. Chief Justice...
...first Consistory since 1940. The ceremonies, a reminder to the world of the venerable traditions and teachings of the Church of Rome, had been preceded last week by a no less significant reminder of how fantastically the world had changed since the Sacred College first met in the 12th Century: two giant planes had brought to Rome the new U.S. cardinals-Archbishops John J. Glennon of St. Louis. Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Edward Mooney of Detroit and Francis J. Spellman of New York...
Then he was off to the American Legion County Fair- his 12th in twelve years. He rode to it on the folded top of a roadster, waving his new hat. At the fair his chair was on a raised platform. He leaned over its railing to grasp hands...
World War II halted his search for a while. Commissioned a first lieutenant, he did photo reconnaissance with the 12th Bomber Group, was wounded in North Africa. A fortnight ago, healed and discharged, he went to Great Brewster Island to take up once more the search for the legendary gold...