Word: ans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having cleared the air, the college representatives recommended to the Secretary of the Air Force that he set up an advisory panel of educators to resolve a much needed new mission for A.F.R.O.T.C.
Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure...
There are cheap cardboard crèches, turned out by the thousands in busy factories, and there are others whose making is a joyful family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling...
Wise Men & Gifts. Long before the date of Christmas was fixed in the calendar (by Pope Julius I in the middle of the 4th century), the cave or stable in Bethlehem had been an object of veneration. St. Justin Martyr mentioned the present Grotto of the Nativity as early as...
The Gospel does not tell how many Wise Men there were; according to St. Chrysostom and St. Augustine there were twelve, but tradition soon narrowed them to three-presumably because of the three gifts they brought. As far back as the and century, the church assigned symbolical meaning to the...