Word: abbess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parish church of Argenteuil some ten miles out from Paris, where Héloise was once Abbess, went devout Roman Catholics by the thousands last week to gaze with pious awe upon a purple woolen garment. To them it was the tunic which Christ wore on His way to Calvary and His Crucifixion; sweat had stained the fabric and on one shoulder were blood spots where the cross had rested. Now as the Holy Tunic, woven and dyed by the Virgin Mary, it was being given solemn ostension for the first time since 1900 because Good Friday commemorated the 19th...