Word: altar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...priests, noticing how he hung around the towers, appointed him chief bellringer. He promptly quit his obnoxious little job as a printer and moved into a tiny stone room high up in the cathedral's east tower. There he installed a little stove, a rickety brass bed, an altar decorated with winged cherubs. There he has lived ever since, among the pigeons, and the owls which perch on the parapets after dark...
...almost any upper-middle-class suburb in the U.S., Mr. & Mrs. George Windsor would undoubtedly be among the solidest section of the community. With her mind never quite detached from the children, well-read, talented Mrs. Windsor would find time to be popular and businesslike at meetings of the Altar Guild and the Garden Club...
...Manhattan's Misericordia Hospital for California, hoping to convalesce in a convent at Alhambra. There, around 7 o'clock one morning last week, Msgr. Paul Nicole, the Cardinal's secretary, entered the prelate's room vested for Mass. The Cardinal was sitting before a small altar. The secretary finished the Introit (preliminary to Mass). Then the Cardinal interrupted...
...Washington Cathedral, the Protestant Episcopal Church installed last week its 20th Presiding Bishop. None of the Most Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill's predecessors had been installed with such pomp & circumstance. Five processions of purple-robed choirboys, candle-bearers, crucifers, bishops and distinguished laymen escorted him toward the high altar. A congregation of 2,500 crowded the unfinished nave to witness the ceremonies of installation...
...assemblage of official church representatives in 400 years. In 1939 the three major denominations of U.S. Methodism merged into one church; in 1940 the Evangelical Synod of North America and the Reformed Church officially united. In 1942 the American and United Lutheran churches recognized a "fellowship of pulpit and altar," stopped just short of organic union. Recently the U.S. Quakers healed their 119-year-old Hicksite-Orthodox schism (TIME, Nov. 18). Negotiations are currently under way between Northern and Southern Presbyterians...