Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...appointed day, in a ballroom of the royal palace, Archbishop Damaskinos, Primate and former Regent of Greece, lifted his jeweled cross for the groom and best man to kiss. Then the choir began the Orthodox hymn Devro Nymphi, Devro Nymphi-"Come bride! Come good bride, come pure bride, come, oh beautiful chaste bride...
...hall on the arm of her uncle Erik Frederik Christian Alexander, former Prince of Denmark. She wore a white satin damask dress and her suntanned, elfin face was haloed in billowing tulle. When the rings had been exchanged and the couple's crowns symbolically tied together, the Archbishop intoned: "With the help of God, dance!" and the bride & groom made three turns around a table. At this point, the couple should have been showered with rice; but rice is scarce. The gesture was omitted...
Diego Rivera's new mural in a Mexico City hotel had stirred up a tequila tempest: the Archbishop refused to bless the hotel because the mural in the dining room contained the words "God does not exist" (TIME, June 14). Last week the ideological brew boiled over, and some of it spilled on the painting...
Diego Rivera was in hot water again last week. His mural in Mexico City's Del Prado Hotel (TIME, Oct. 6) had suddenly become a national scandal. Someone had informed the Archbishop that the mural contained a portrait of Don Ignacio Ramirez (an anticlerical follower of Juarez) holding a placard with the words Dios no existe ("God does not exist"-see cut). Sadly, the Archbishop canceled a date to bless the just-completed hotel and went off to bless some jai alai courts instead...
When a reporter got to Rivera's house, the garrulous, 61-year-old revolutionary was ready & waiting, with both guns loaded. "I respectfully propose," he offered grandly, "that the Archbishop bless the hotel in order that, with divine help, it may realize the greatest profits possible, and that he damn my [mural] so that I may go tranquilly to hell. Then everyone will be happy...