Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...narrow-eyed Slavs in Sunday-best waded through the slush from smoke-stained frame houses and brick tenements near the stockyards. Priests, bishops and archbishops occupied a solid 14 pews within St. Procopius'. The occasion: the four-hour investiture of Father Ambrose Ondrak as Abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Procopius, one of 21 abbeys of the U.S. Benedictines. The investing prelate: Samuel Cardinal Stritch...
Priest at Work. Though St. Procopius Abbey is in rural country outside the city, the new Abbot will not be wholly removed from the Studs Lonigan district in which he grew up and has lived all his life. Under his supervision will be the priests of several Chicago parishes like his old one of St. Michael's, as well as priests scattered over several states. He will have charge also of Benedictine missions in China and Czechoslovakia...
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Under the gauze of London's blue-grey November mist, the Portland stone buildings of Whitehall, the delicate tracery of trees in Parliament Square, the twin towers of Westminster Abbey all melted together to form a silver backdrop. Fresh sand strewn along the procession route made a golden carpet...
...Italy, 2,500 historic buildings got in the line of fire. The abbey atop Monte Cassino, which St. Benedict founded in 529, was a cellar drowned in rubble. But Rome escaped whole-except for the Church of San Lorenzo-outside-the-Walls, founded by Emperor Constantine (see cut). The ruins of ancient Greece (made genuine ruins by Turkish shells in 1827) had not been disturbed...