Word: bishops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sufi Abdul Hamid (Eugene Brown), circa 45, onetime "Black Hitler," who as Bishop of the Universal Order of Tranquility was Harlem's No. 2 Cult Leader (see p. 7); when his nine-year-old monoplane ran out of fuel and crashed; near Wantagh, L. I. The plane's pilot also was killed, Hamid's secretary injured...
...Swithin, a Bishop of Winchester who died July 2, 862, was moved to a shrine in 971 on July 15, He had asked to be buried "exposed to passing feet and rain falling from...
...field worker until he was old enough to go to Marvin College at Clinton. He later put himself through Emory College (Georgia) and the University of Virginia Law School. He got his first job in the law office of Paducah's Judge W. S. Bishop whom Paducah's Irvin Cobb immortalized as "Judge Priest." Slow of mind and body, but powerful and persistent, in his career from there up to Majority Leader he had only two lucky breaks: he voted to seat Franklin Roosevelt as a delegate to the 1920 Democratic convention; and the late Joe Robinson picked...
...mother's clothes, reporters were finally able to see for themselves Mrs. Roosevelt in voluminous Navy-and-Eleanor blue, the bridesmaids in hyacinth blue net, the maid-of-honor (Sally Clark) in peach net, the bride's mother in dove gray crepe. Soon after high noon, Episcopal Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill of Massachusetts and old Dr. Endicott Peabody, headmaster of Groton School, who married Johnny's parents 33 years ago, joined in performing the ceremony. Leaving the altar, Anne caught Brother James Roosevelt's eye, winked. At the church door Groom Johnny hailed his car like...
...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...