Word: angelus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning...
Into and out of Superior Court in Los Angeles last week moved an ugly squabble which has long rent the Angelus Temple of Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson (TIME, Jan. 18). Moody Sister Aimee, beset by fears that people are trying to wrest control of the Temple from her, has succeeded in estranging her mother Mrs. Minnie ("Ma") Kennedy, her daughter Roberta
...with tremendous enthusiasm the "Defenders of the Faith" rushed down and scattered the forces of evil. More quietly but with smart military precision the graduating class deployed, reformed ranks, ran through a series of drill maneuvers. Then Aimee Semple McPherson, founder of LIFE, appeared on the stage of her Angelus Temple, sermonized until long after midnight...
...time in silence, save during religious observances, meals, conversations with those in charge of the retreat. Their day began with a rising bell at 7 a. m. A prefect awakened each with "Let us bless the Lord," to which the correct reply was: "And give thanks to God." Followed Angelus, meditation, Mass, prayers and breakfast. At this and other meals, excellently cooked and served by nine buxom German nuns, a meditation reader read briefly. When he exclaimed "Prosit!" general conversation was in order...
...Angeles 60 complainants against a loudspeaker in a branch of Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple were curtly told: "Put cotton in your ears...