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...notables, thousands of plain folk and pilgrims from all lands. On its lofty walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
Last week Jim and Susie decided to get married. For altar they chose a well beside a tree in a nudist colony near Elsinore, Calif. To perform the ceremony they chose Rev. Clarke Irvine of the Temple of Nature Church. For their attendants they chose James Mack as best man, Constance Alien as maid-of-honor. For wedding clothes they chose nothing...
...office on the twenty-second floor of Chicago's Mather Tower last week had its finger on the pulse of the U. S. churches. The pulse beat briskly. Throughout the land, ladies' aid societies, missionary circles and altar guilds were becoming "Good News Broadcasters." At the rate of 11,000 per day the ladies were signing up for a simple scheme by which they would make money for their churches just by buying, and getting other ladies to buy, certain nationally-advertised products. In full swing was the "Goodwin Plan...
...Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet...
...accommodate 10,000 participants in the biggest event of the Congress, a solemn high mass, Philadelphia's Municipal Auditorium was made ready, its stage transformed into a sanctuary and choir, an altar erected with dossals and riddles, hanging crucifix and candles...