Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would-be-assassin who fired at pointblank range (TIME, June 2) were about to culminate in the singing of a glad Te Deum in St. John's Cathedral at Valletta last week, when suddenly this hymn in praise of God for what he had done was countermanded by Archbishop Caruana...
Among the ignorant rabble a fearful rumor spread: the fact of three misses at close range was the work not of God but of the Devil! An assumption grew that the Death of Baron Strickland would have been sustained with a minimum of sorrow by Archbishop Caruana and his superiors...
...narrates, with the complete self-identification with his characters of which Meyer was capable--through he troubles himself little with archaeological preciseness--the conflict between Thomas a Becket and King Henry II, from the time when the King himself disturbed the serene sway of his chancellor by creating him Archbishop of Canterbury, through the conversion of Becket into a meek exponent of passive resistance, a Mahatma-like figure who led his Saxon beggar-followers with the sign of the Cross. At length he so maddened the King that four Norman nobles took the royal wrath as a pretext for slaughtering...
Died. Louis Henry Cardinal Lucon, Archbishop of Rheims, 87, War hero; of bronchial pneumonia; at Rheims. In 1914 at Rome, he heard of the bombardment of Rheims, hastened home to be with his endangered parishioners. Forbidden to entrain from Paris for Rheims, he motored there, slept in a cellar, tended the wounded, held Mass wherever he could, sometimes underground, remained until forced by military authority to retreat from the city in April 1918. In 1927 he consecrated the rebuilding Cathedral (not yet completed). To announce his death, the Cathedral's chimes tolled the number of his years...
Baron Strickland seemed dazed, almost paralyzed for a moment as the first bullet whizzed by, then, without moving or speaking, he suddenly smiled, and smiling entered the Court to testify against supporters of the archbishop...