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Word: berumen (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dusk the procession wound through the mountains. A day's march ahead were the old, the women and the smart young Querétaro lawyers who arranged for overnight billeting of the aged and the very important. Among these last was Querétaro's Father Sebastian Berumen. Thin and steelyeyed, he marched in straw sun helmet and knee-length gabardine coat to cover the cassock that by law he is forbidden to wear in public. With him walked his chief aides: Tranquilino González, president of Querétaro's Chamber of Commerce; John Herbert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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