Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transforming potential of clothes is scarcely indigenous to Texas, but there are, as so often happens in the state, regional exaggerations. One of the supreme moments of a rich young girl's life is her debut-year tour of the festivals: the Battle of the Flowers Parade in San Antonio, the Texas Rose Festival in Tyler, the Buccaneer Days in Corpus Christi, where the girls are wheeled around on carts while hoi polloi pay to watch the spectacle. These dresses, talismans of youth and beauty, are preserved forever, or until they take up too much house room. Museums cannot take...
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...broke from their church over its ordination of women and tolerance for remarriage after divorce. In 1980 the Vatican agreed to the dissidents' requests to join the Roman Catholic Church. Parishes for converts were established in Las Vegas, Columbia, S.C., and the Texas cities of Austin, Houston and San Antonio. The traditional Roman Catholic Mass was said at these churches during the original phase, but for the first time in the U.S., the Vatican waived the celibacy rule and to date 23 married ex-Episcopal priests have been ordained in the Catholic Church. And now, for this liturgical year...
...spine both north and south of Santiago. At its epicenter, near the village of Algarrobo, it officially measured more than 8 on the Richter scale; geologists compared it in magnitude with the disastrous 1960 Chile quake, which killed almost 6,000. In some places, including the port of San Antonio, three-quarters or more of the buildings were no longer habitable. In San Bernardo, five died when a church wall collapsed on a Roman Catholic $ congregation. Said Juan Andres Bravo, who had been helping serve Mass when the tremor struck: "It was a scene from Dante's Inferno. Horrible...