Word: annes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ann's of Morrisania Church in The Bronx stands as one of New York's finest examples of 19th century Gothic architecture. Its façade bears a plaque noting that Philanthropist Gouverneur Morris II built the church in memory of his mother and that Lewis Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and the first Gouverneur Morris, who drafted the Constitution, are buried there. Nowadays no one notices the plaque, and the limestone structure is in bad repair. Once fashionable and famous, St. Ann's parish is today in the heart...
Thanks to closed-door policies of their parishes' middle-class past, many slum priests have to overcome open hostility in their neighborhoods, notably among young people. Before Father David Kern, 34, a former social worker, took over St. Ann's in The Bronx in 1961, the big parish yard had been kept locked at all times. "The first thing we did was to open the gates," he recalls. "At first, the kids came in to see what they could wreck. Windows were broken, but it was more important for us to establish identification with these kids than...
...tombstone carving lay between 1650 and 1800. With prosperity and education, fashion began to dictate design, and the fine art of the gravestone, with its candid memento mori portraits, its fire-and-brimstone skulls and scythe-bearing skeletons, disappeared. "After' 1820, everything was urns and willow trees." says Ann Parker...
...black Chrysler sedan-"sufficiently hearselike to be inconspicuous in a graveyard." This winter, in a Salem, Mass., cemetery, they were bundled in hooded parkas, sweeping away snow, when they found themselves surrounded by a ring of hostile-looking observers. "You know how Salem feels about witches," says Ann, but nothing happened: burning people is another old New England art that has disappeared...
...with the world's second largest Catholic population (after Brazil), has none,* but one is in the making. This week in Rome, following Vatican approval of two miracles attributed to her intervention with God-one a medically inexplicable cure of cancer, the other a recovery from leukemia-Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, founder of the American branch of the worldwide order known as the Daughters of Charity, was enrolled among the beatified of the church. Attending the formal ceremonies at St. Peter's were more than 3,000 American pilgrims, including Cardinals Spellman and Ritter and 15-year...