Word: besan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decided to be a priest. His war-widowed mother protested that she could not afford to support him during the long course of study. He retorted: "I will eat potatoes every day, if need be, but I will become a priest." The following year he entered the seminary at Besançon; 13 years later he was ordained...
...more happiness there is in the souls of men, the more love there is for God in their hearts," said Father Simon. He made friends with the Communist mayor and the Communist schoolteacher. He organized games and singing lessons for the children. He arranged with manufacturers in nearby Besançon for piecework to keep his housewives occupied and increase their income. By 1947, the parish of Saone was much happier...
...wrapped when it was laid in the tomb. In 1171 William, Archbishop of Tyre, mentioned such a shroud in Constantinople. In 1204 a member of the Fourth Crusade, which sacked the city, sent the shroud to his father in France. But in 1349 the Church of St. Stephen in Besançon, where it was kept, caught fire, and the shroud seemed to have vanished...