Word: altare
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...solemn and ancient pageantry with which the Roman Catholic Church sends its kings, its great men, its princes of the clergy from this world. The East Side's Al Smith lay below the sanctuary, in a shrouded casket on a catafalque flanked by six tall, flickering candles. The altar before it was bright with the purple garb of bishops and the monsignori...
...constructed a crude altar. We covered it with a slightly soiled sheet and arranged things as best we could with what we had to work with. Soda crackers and diluted rum served as the more essential elements. The service was crude . . . but our men appreciated it more than they would have in one of our larger cathedrals, because they had an active part in bringing it about. I probably stepped way out of line by taking it upon myself to conduct the holy sacrament, but I am sure that some of the men who participated, especially those...
...careful to attack only with small arms. The plainer Romanesque south tower likewise showed only a little bullet chipping. Priests who ushered an A.P. correspondent around pointed out the slight damage to the interior-a few windows broken in the south transept, a few supports shattered behind the high altar. The glorious blue glass of Chartres was nowhere to be seen. But, said a priest: "At the start of the war we removed all the colored glass and stored it in the cellar...
Quezon, who once planned to costume the attendants at his Philippine mansion like Buckingham Palace guards, went to his grave in somber splendor. All night, after its return to Washington in a dark baggage car, his body lay in state before the flower-banked altar of St. Matthew's Cathedral off fashionable Connecticut Avenue. White-gloved soldiers stood impassively with rifles grounded as crowds filed past. People of Filipino descent, great men of the U.S. and plain Americans came, paused, passed on, hour after hour. The next morning General Marshall, Admiral King, Interior Secretary Ickes, Senators and Supreme Court...
...gleaming structure of glass blocks and red brick produced by local architects who were chosen because they had never designed a Catholic church before, is strictly 20th Century. But it has one primitive feature that has rarely been seen in Christian churches since the 9th Century. Its altar is set in the center of the church (see cut), so that the face and hands of the priest offering Mass are visible to his congregation from three sides. The altar of the new cathedral to be built in Britain's bombed-out Coventry after the war (TIME, Feb. 21) will...