Word: apostoli
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...epistle, the fourth of John Paul's papacy, is titled Slavorum Apostoli (Apostles of the Slavs), and traces the evangelistic careers of the Greek- born brothers Methodius and Cyril on the 1,100th anniversary of their apostolates. In extolling the lives of Cyril and Methodius, John Paul referred to them as a "spiritual bridge between the Eastern and Western traditions." The two saints, he said, provide a model for the cultural and religious unity of Europe, a favorite theme of this pontificate...
...Slavorum Apostoli, John Paul did not directly accuse the Communists of conducting religious persecutions, but his comment on the problems that beset the saints can be read as an allusion to the current trials of Catholicism in East bloc states. The Pope also appeared to be making a veiled reference to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe when he wrote that Cyril and Methodius "took as their own the difficulties and problems inevitable for peoples who were defending their own identity against the military and cultural pressure of the new Romano-Germanic Empire...
Died. Fred Apostoli, 59, "the fighting bellhop" of San Francisco who became an amateur boxer while working as a hotel elevator boy and won the world middleweight championship in November 1938; of a heart attack; in San Francisco...
Round-faced, grey-haired little Don Zeno, 50, is the founder and sparkplug of Nomadelphia, which means "Town of Brotherhood." His followers call themselves the Piccoli Apostoli (Little Apostles). The Little Apostles may well contain the seeds of a movement destined to outlast Don Zeno and his disordered century...
...supension (for failing to report a $100,000 bribe offer two years ago). He was really lonesome fighting anywhere but in Madison Square Garden, which was "just like my own bedroom." He was pretty proud of one thing: that he didn't go on with his match with Apostoli and take a dive. "I could have picked up the change [about $18,000] and gone into the water," said Rocky righteously...