Word: benedict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overcrowds the canvas with drama: the archangel is dividing the damned from the saved (including a Pope) in the foreground, while Christ sits on high in judgment, flanked by the Apostles and the Virgin Mary on one side and John the Baptist on the other. Il Borgognone, in St. Benedict's Miracle of the Sieve, shows his central figure moving through the pious story then popular: at prayer (left), displaying the flour sieve he had miraculously mended (center), and finally leaving in displeasure and disappearing into the distance (right) after the maids prattled about his power...
Light & Air. Redheaded young Father Egan had graduated from St. Benedict's College in Atchison, Kans. and earned an M.A. in sociology at the University of Notre Dame; he was determined to let some fresh air and light into the academic stronghold of St. Bernard. First, he banded together with a group of younger priests, some of whom he had known in prep school. One of these, Irish-born Father Malachy Shanaghan, who is now head of St. Bernard's English department and finishing a Ph.D. thesis on Novelist William Faulkner, describes the change they put into effect...
While Ormandy was in Chicago, mandarin-faced Conductor Reiner walked onto the stage of Philadelphia's Academy of Music, acknowledged the orchestra's standing tribute with a frozen smile and launched into a program that included Berlioz' Overture to Beatrice and Benedict, Mozart's "Linz" Symphony, Ravel's Rapsodie Esbagnole, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Although Reiner had rehearsed the orchestra only three times, his performance was a stunning revelation...
...church!" and "Colonna for the people!" For more than a millennium the princely Orsinis have stood firmly beside the Vatican; tradition credits them with five Popes, 18 saints, 40 cardinals. Eleven Orsini women became queens; Orsini men married twelve daughters of kings and emperors. In 1725 Pope Benedict XIII sought to end the continuous feuding between Orsini and Colonna by ordering that the leader of each house should alternate as his Prince Assistant at Mass and other ceremonies of the church, a dignity that ranked them just below a cardinal...
...departure of the group is currently scheduled for early in February. It will bring to an end the activities of St. Benedict's Center, founded 18 years ago as an "information center" for Harvard and Radcliffe Catholic students, but used since 1949 exclusively as the home of "the Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, a virulently anti-Semitic religious community. Former Harvard and Radcliffe students are among the membership...