Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...John's Abbey...
...story of the Earling exorcism, Begone Satan!, was written in German by a Rev. Carl Vogel, translated by a Benedictine named Rev. Celestine Kapsner, published at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minn, with the official imprimatur of Bishop Joseph F. Busch of St. Cloud and the Nihil Obstat of Monsignor John P. Durham. Hence it was presumed not to err in faith or morals. The Denver Register, whose editor, Monsignor Matthew J. W. Smith, splashed it on the front page of his weekly, was deluged with letters...
...minutes ahead of schedule. In the royal salon car as it drew into King's Cross Station a painful dilemma was in course. Gently the King urged Queen Mary and the Duchesses to alight at once and set out by limousine for Westminster Hall close by the Abbey, where George V was to lie in state. The Queen in her grief felt that she should not leave the railway station until the gun carriage bearing George V had rolled away. Assenting, the King then proposed to start the procession at once. The Queen reminded him that...
...before all London watched King Edward VIII follow the body of his father, George V to Westminster Hall last week, a quiet company gathered in nearby Westminster Abbey to watch the cremated ashes of Rudyard Kipling, housed in a marble urn, disappear into the shallow loam under the paved flooring where are mixed the dust of Tennyson, Dickens and Samuel Johnson. At the end of the quiet service the Abbey choir soared into Kipling's stirring Recessional. To honor Britain's great Imperial Poet, the third man in the 20th Century to be buried in the Poets...
...George to appoint this Royal Commission in one of his last acts as Prime Minister, naming as chairman benevolent, octogenarian Sir John Eldon Bankes, a retired Lord Justice of Appeal. Sittings last week were in the half-moon-shaped, oak-paneled Council Chamber of ancient Middlesex Guildhall opposite Westminster Abbey. Acoustics were so poor that proceedings could not be heard in the gallery...