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...famed in Denver for her gaudy back yard in which the trees are painted white. Simple and austere, however, are the plans by which able Architect Jules Jacques Benous Benedict will transform the exterior of existing red brick Franciscan buildings into Lombard Romanesque, outfit the interiors with a new altar, mosaic and murals, library, dining hall and study rooms for 20 brown-robed monks. Those monks will call their habitation Bonfils Memorial Monastery...
Next day, at a portable altar deep in flowers, Rev. Paul Schulte celebrated the world's first aerial Mass. He ended the service with thanks to "God at the helm." Three icebergs were spotted in the afternoon. As the ship passed through the cold air above them, its electric radiators were switched on. That night, after most passengers were asleep, the Hindenburg ran through a severe squall, held so steady no one was awakened...
Before the ornate altar of a Buddhist temple in a Tacoma side street, Julius Goldwater, one of the 50 white Buddhist priests in the U. S., intoned: "This candi date desires ordination." Red-robed Bishop Kenju Masuyama, head of all Buddhist temples in North America, placed a kesa (stole) around the neck of yellow-robed Mrs. Pratt. Chanted she: "I take my refuge in Buddha. I take my refuge in Dharma. I take my refuge in Sangha." Thus Mrs. Pratt entered the life of Upasika Bhikum ("Utmost Perfection of Womanly Virtue"). Taking a new name, Teiun, she continued...
...young man's onetime headmaster as preacher, his younger brother as crucifer, two of his cousins as crosier-bearer and litanist. His hands trembling with emotion, Bishop Perry draped a stole about the neck of his first-born son and led the new deacon to the Cathedral altar...
...Paul's Cathedral in London, 1,000 worshippers gawped when a shapely young woman of 25 walked to the altar, threw off a long cloak, knelt stark naked, was hustled out. In Rome where Pope Pius XI remained in ailing privacy Easter was the quietest in years. In Moscow, 60,000 die-hard citizens, oldish and mostly women, packed the city's 28 surviving churches...