Word: altare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presented an altar cloth of rose and. gold tracery to, and received the thanks of, the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Bishop William T. Manning officiating...
...time a gown of ecru lace over a black satin slip. The Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden were present, she wearing a gown of apricot pink crepe, with a skirt of self-colored lace. The only decorations in the chapel were six golden vases of lilies on the altar and white ribbons outlining the aisles...
...vested choir sang "The Voice That Breathed O'er Eden." The organ played the usual selection from Lohengrin. Dr. Hugh Birckhead, the Bruce pastor from Baltimore, performed the marriage service. Secretary Mellon then stepped back to the pew across from the President. The bridal couple advanced to the altar and Bishop Freeman of the Cathedral said the wedding service, including "Obey...
...village of Samnaun, Switzerland, an old man entered a church a recent Sunday. He rang the bell a few minutes and then, as nobody came, mounted the altar and read a passage from the Bible. After the lesson he said a prayer and left the church, locking the door behind him. Every alternate Sunday for many years this old man has held such services. He is a Protestant, the only Protestant in Samnaun. Eighty years ago half the villagers were Catholic, half Protestant; they decided to build a church which should be at the service of each group on alternate...
...bottom. There are two stairways and four different walls or belts of masonry, looking not unlike four turrets of a battleship, placed one above another, the smallest at the top. The only room we could find was a small one in the next to the highest turned. An altar at the back of this room had been broken, exposing crevices that ran down several feet...