Word: assisi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Graham adds to his balanced, careful sentences a politician's forced modesty. "I'm in the line of these people," he says, comparing himself to great evangelists of the past, like St. Augustine and St. Francis of Assisi. But he quickly adds, "I'm the least of them all. . . . I shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath with them. . .I'm not worthy. . . ." The words have the hollow sound of a statement which once was passionately sincere but which had been eroded by constant flattery until its speaker had come almost to disbelieve...
...onetime student of voodoo, Zarur grew up memorizing the Bible and studying mysticism. In 1932 he drifted into radio as a writer and actor. In 1948, as the story goes, a medium brought him a message from St. Francis of Assisi: "The time for the mission has arrived." "What mission?" asked Zarur. "Read the book about him," said the medium, "and you will understand." Zarur went back to a book by St. Francis, and suddenly "I knew everything. All I had to do was begin...
Capovilla told an audience in Assisi last week that after Aleksei Adzhubei had raised the question of diplomatic relations between Moscow and the Vatican, the Pope gave him a brief homily in reply. "You are a journalist," he said, "so you know the Bible and the progression of the work of Creation. You know that the Lord took six days for the work of Creation before coming to man. But as you know, the days of the Bible are not days but epochs, and the epochs of the Bible are very long...
Headed for stardom, she wheeled around Hollywood in a Thunderbird, collected a sizable list of screen credits (Francis of Assisi, Where the Boys Are, Lisa), and made $50,000 playing a jet-paced stewardess in her most recent movie, Come Fly With Me. But for blonde Dolores Hart, 24, fame and flight pay were not enough. Each year since 1958, she has spent four weeks at a Roman Catholic retreat. Last week, making the break complete, Dolores slipped away from the movie colony to enter Regina Laudis Monastery in Bethlehem, Conn., as a postulant. Said...
Lamp Unto My Feet (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). A mime, Salvatore Guida, plays several parts in telling the story of St. Francis of Assisi...