Word: baptiste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mormon Jack Dempsey and his separated Baptist wife, Hannah Williams, got together to watch their older daughter, Joan, 6, make her first Communion as a Catholic...
...above monasteries perching like fabulous castles on crags above the sea. Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery, Vatopédi, Simöpetra, bastioned Dionysiou (which proudly possesses the brain and right hand of Saint John the Baptist) and many others, each with its fusty library and gilded Byzantine church...
With Roman Catholics and Protestants the world over working together in a more friendly spirit than ever before, Spain has reversed the worldwide trend and resumed its ancient place as the world's most devout persecutor of heretics. Facts about Spain's 25,000 Protestants (Baptist, Methodist, Congregational, Episcopal) vouched for by Dr. Henry Smith Leiper, American secretary of the World Council of Churches...
...score of bombed churches in England and Wales through March 21: 714 destroyed or seriously damaged (including 287 Anglican, 123 Congregational, 118 Methodist, 58 Roman Catholic, 17 Presbyterian); 1,945 others damaged (1,100 Anglican, 448 Methodist, 135 Roman Catholic, 106 Baptist, 98 Congregational, 18 Presbyterian). Six cathedrals (Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, Rochester, Canterbury, Westminster) and Westminster Abbey have been struck and one cathedral (Coventry) destroyed...
...locusts John the Baptist ate are not bugs, but the flat seed pods of the carob tree-which are also the husks fed to the swine and the Prodigal Son. They can now be bought in the markets of Manhattan's lower East Side as "St. John's bread...