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...colors. The murals were done in dry fresco, and because paint had to be applied while the walls were wet, Artist Vanka stayed on his scaffolding virtually all day and usually until 2 or 3 a. m. At night Father Zagar stayed with him, droning prayers. Over the domed altar he painted a 36-ft. Madonna & Child in rich reds and blues, violet and silver, on one side wall a scene of Croatian peasants kneeling at the Angelus, on the other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas...
...Labor Office, meeting at Geneva. There, representing President Roosevelt and U. S. Labor, Assistant Secretary of Labor Edward Francis McGrady sounded off: "I predict that the world's working men and women will not forever be content to stand by while civilized living is being sacrificed on the altar of armaments, nor longer be willing to forge a means of their own destruction...
...years ago, from their cloistered monastery in Indianapolis, sisters of the Discalced (unshod) Carmelite order sent word to their friends that they wished a new monstrance (altar vessel in which the Sacred Host is exposed). A piece at a time, gold came in to the sisters in the form of rings, pins, bracelets, keepsakes. The Carmelites had a monstrance designed by a firm of goldsmiths in Utrecht. Planning to have the monstrance plated, they sent the jewelry to a smelter to be converted into bullion. But they reckoned without President Roosevelt's gold acts of 1933 and 1934. Last...
...faiths. In Rochester he drives his own automobile, plays golf in the 80s, stays away from parties. Catholic eulogizers speak of his "short, concise sermons," but Rochesterites long ago be came used to the fact that Archbishop Mooney is no great orator. Each year he takes a crowd of altar boys to the opening game of the baseball season...
...what it is ... a heresy. Whatever Communism creates ... is just so much machinery for eliminating God from human society!" They cheered again when Bishop John M. Gannon of Erie cried: ''Who knows, but that in the secrets of Divine Providence, the Spanish people, the victim on the altar of immolation, are today being called on as the nation to .decisively test and crush atheistic Communism...