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...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...
...runaway slaves. Dr. Houghton, stanch Abolitionist, hid many Negroes in it during the riots, once stood defiantly at the gate shouting: "You white devils, you! Do you know nothing of the spirit of Christ?" Today in the Church is a memorial to George & Elizabeth Wilson. Negro doorkeepers, representing the baptism of the Ethiopian by St. Philip...
...Crimson first year golfers opened their season with a 7 to 2 defeat at the hands of the Exeter players. Wednesday the Freshmen met their second defeat when they were downed by Andover 6 to 3. These two matches should have furnished the inexperienced men with their baptism of five in Intercollegiate matches, however, and a win today should not be impossible...
...Denver, Col. next September. Chief points of difference between old Canon 43 and the tentative new one are: The new one lifts the only ground for divorce the Episcopal Church recognizes-adultery; it permits, by inference, divorced persons to partake of all the church rites and sacraments-Holy Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Communion-and permits them to be married a second time by an Episcopal clergyman, though not in the Church nor with the prayer-book service. Second marriage, at present sanctioned only for the innocent party in a divorce for adultery, would be in the discretion of a Bishop...
...court turned the tables on Shylock he was heavily fined, forced to will the rest of his fortune to his run away daughter Jessica and her goy hus band, made to promise he would be baptized. But he knew life in Venice would be insufferable, and after his enforced baptism escaped by ship to friends in Constantinople. After an abortive Zionistic attempt to found a Jewish colony at Tiberias he sailed with a Turkish expedition against Venice-owned Cyprus, and there had a vicarious revenge on the city that had ruined him. There too he met again his lost daughter...