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...last week carpenters had built a small replica of Peiping's great open air Altar of Heaven with its ceremonial steps. Ready, too, was an imperial throne of ebony, carved with dragons and orchids. Tailors embroidered robes of imperial yellow and jewelers had carved a Ju Yee or sceptre of jade. Since meteorologists announced that the temperature was likely to be about 20 below zero the enthronement ceremony was advanced from sunrise to noon. For many hours Henry in his yellow robe must make his obeisance to his illustrious ancestors while mandarins kowtow and the traditional orchestra in mushroom...
...true Body and Blood of Christ. It is a particle of unleavened bread, generally baked by nuns, and consecrated by the priest during mass. When not in use it rests in a ciborium (cuplike vessel) in the tabernacle, a stout box on the church's high altar. In time of stress the Blessed Sacrament is the priest's first concern. In Toledo one night last week Rev. Francis J. Keyes hastened into his church, St. Patrick's. The tabernacle containing the ciborium and Host was gone. So were gold and silver vessels worth $3,000-thuribles (censers...
...head, and he wore the olive drab uniform of a general. The scarlet sash of the Grand Cross of Leopold was across his chest. There was an ivory crucifix in his bruised hands. The plain rosewood bed on which he lay was covered with white lilacs. Two yellow altar candles burned steadily at its foot, two black-gowned nuns prayed at its head. His clock ticked steadily away on the bedside table...
...Baroque period. Models and photographs demonstrate the modern churches designed by modern architects, Boehm, Bartning, et alia. In harmony with the structures of an age which has made material more responsive to mind than ever before, and so has had undreamed of power over the abstract are the altar furniture, vestments, tapestries, stained glass and other work which completes the display. The high points of the collection are the models and photographs of the Church of St. Joseph by Boehm, a group of four gargoyles by the sculptor Hensler, chalices and patenae by Michaelis, several original pieces by Barlach...
...more than 1,000 Armenians surged and shouted in front of Manhattan's Homicide Court one day last week. To be arraigned were seven men accused of stabbing to death huge Archbishop Leon Tourian, primate of 130,000 souls in the Armenian Apostolic Church in America, before the altar of Holy Cross Armenian Church on Christmas Eve (TIME, Jan. 1). The mob lusted to get their vengeful hands upon the seven, but 75 mounted police charged into the street, drove them back. From nowhere, a patrol wagon whizzed up, out of which seven trembling Armenians were hustled into court...