Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Archbishop John B. Lamy (one of the Indians' best friends, whom Willa Cather portrayed in Death Comes for the Archbishop) brought death to the art of santos-making. The Archbishop decreed, when he arrived at Santa Fe in 1851, that the barbaric santos be destroyed, and replaced by conventional images and chromes imported from Lamy's native France. More than a thousand santos-today mostly to be found in southwestern museums-survived the Archbishop...
...Alexandria knew old St. Anthony by reputation, for he had worked miracles of solace among the martyrs there 30 years before. In the basilica he was given the place of honor, the archbishop's throne. When the service reached the new Nicene Creed (. . . "very God of very God, begotten not made, being of one substance with the Father, by whom all things were made. . .), an Arian heckler interrupted to protest. Old Anthony was puzzled. He did not understand the controversy very well, but he knew what he knew. Before a crowd tense with suppressed rationalism and electrified...
Equally explicit was the late Dr. William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, who wrote: "From the religious side there is constant pressure to keep the spiritual free from what is felt to be the contamination of the material world, which is regarded as in some way gross and unworthy. . . . But this results ... in leaving the physical to go its own way unchecked by the spirit, so that the vaunted spiritual exaltation has its counterpart in bodily immorality. In either case the unity of man's life is broken; the material world, with all man's economic activity, becomes...
...analogue to England's Archbishop of Canterbury, and sixth-ranking prelate of the Anglican Communion (after the Archbishops of Canterbury, York, Armagh and Wales, the Primus of Scotland...
...clerical roles in particular were performed with something more than even extraordinary skill. Charles Sedgwick as the Archbishop of Reins and Thayer David as the Inquisitor went beyond the realms of skill in the two roles which more than any other express the religious-philosophical outlook of Shaw in the play. Mendy Weisgal was perfect as the pathetic Dauphin, from his neglected yellow robes to the fifteenth century hair style he had summoned for the occasion. H. M. Temple set the pace for the rest of the cast with a superbly stylish performance as de Baudricourt in the opening scene...