Word: abbots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their ears. Large-boned, 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...
Said Chicago's Auxiliary Bishop Sheil: "Of all the priests I know, Abbot Ondrak has been most generous and most eager in his response to the Church's wish for priests who, in the words of Pope Pius XI, dedicate the better part of their endeavors and their zeal to winning back the laboring masses to Christ and to His Church. He has battled against economic injustices. . . . He has . . . battled . . . against unemployment, insecurity, disease and crime. . . . Because of him, and men like him, no one can say that the [Roman] Catholic Church is irrelevant today...
Sparked again on offense by center Dave Abbot, a steadly improving Freshman hockey team won its second regular season victory in as many starts by bowling over a highly regarded Belmont Hill six yesterday, 5 to 2, at the Arena...
...start with Freedman's goal after two minutes had passed, and were never headed. When both Abbott and Fletcher of the Yardlings landed in the penalty box, the prep-school team had a chance to score-but goalie Bill Yetman and his defensemen managed to stave off all onslaughts. Abbot scored his first goal of the contest at 13:05 to make the score at the end of the first frame...
...probable starting lineup: lw, Almy; c, Abbot; r.w, Flectcher; ld, Allen; rd, Key; g, Yetman...