Word: altars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high-ranking prelates exiled by Perón just before the revolt. In another effective gesture. Buenos Aires' Bishop Miguel de Andrea, the only high-ranking Argentine prelate who steadfastly opposed Perón during the 1945-54 period, threw off his colorful vestments at the altar in burned San Miguel Church and told the congregation that henceforth he would wear only simple black as a sign that his soul was in mourning. But the Papal Nuncio, the Vatican's ambassador, began quiet talks with Perón's Foreign Minister. The presumed topic: a concordat that...
Women wept, and children stared around them wide-eyed. Last week at the first services police allowed in Buenos Aires' burned-out churches. Argentine Roman Catholics saw the full extent of the damage. Inside blackened shells they found looted poor boxes, shattered statues and altars, toppled altar rails. They knelt to pray in mounds of ashes...
...terrified caretaker saw them: 30 or 40 swarthy, roughly dressed men carrying crowbars and bottles of gasoline. While dust still hung over the nearby Plaza de Mayo, bombed a few hours earlier, the men marched into the church. Within minutes, flames were consuming San Ignacio's great cedar altar and its historic, Indian-carved pulpit. At the same time, similar bands of men touched off other important churches. The lofty dome of the Basilica of San Francisco glowed red. Flames danced in the windows of the archbishop's palace next to the Metropolitan Cathedral (which was spared...
Once reopened, the damaged churches became a focus for piety and anger. Inside Santo Domingo, a priest said Mass at an altar improvised of boxes and boards placed in front of a cross made of two charred timbers wired together and planted in a heap of rubble. At San Ignacio, a brown-robed friar carefully set back on its feet an image of San Benito de Palermo, whose day it was. "Not even in Russia did they do this," he said. "They hanged priests, but they did not destroy the churches." In San Miguel lay partly burned church records...
...night, when everyone was asleep, I would get up from my bunk, and on a rough box I would prepare the altar and celebrate Mass. For the consecration ot the Eucharist, I used little crumbs of bread and five or six drops of wine. The most difficult thing to find was the wine, but the Lord saw to it that I never lacked. Sometimes I made it myself, fermenting the juice I squeezed out of bunches of dried grapes that I got from a fellow prisoner in exchange for many platefuls of 'Volga.' I kept this precious wine...