Word: altare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Within, all is quiet, all is holy. Here many a bishop in splendid robes has walked down the longest Gothic nave in the world.* Here altar boys, long since dead, have bobbed in genuflections as they hurriedly passed the altar to bring a priest a garment or a book. Here for 800 years God has been worshipped in high and solemn services...
Refused. Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef Anton Ignatz Hubert Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis; by Princess Ilia of Bohemia; at the altar, in Regensburg, Bavaria. Reason: She preferred to espouse his younger brother, Prince Philip Ernst Maria Adalbert Josef Maximilian Anton Ignatz Stanislas Lamoral of Thurn und Taxis, whom she had met while preparing to marry Prince Raphael Renier Carl Maria Josef...
...their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar. Goat moaned, girl bleated; and when finally the goat was killed it was the girl that cried out in death agony...
Introibo ad altare del. ... "I will go in unto the altar of God. Unto God, Who giveth joy to my youth...
...third floor of the Hotel Biltmore in New York a "Meditation Chapel" was opened, for guests and employes alike. It contained benches and a small altar, on which flowers will be kept fresh every day. Over the altar was the inscription, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." (Matthew...