Word: bora
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Barbara Mills Kleban was bora in England, attended Manchester University, and worked as a secretary before coming to the U.S. She was a researcher for Business for four years before becoming a reporter for that section...
...into effect a spiritual reform that became the model for much of Germany. The episcopate was abolished, since Luther had found no Scriptural warrant for the office of bishop. Clerical celibacy was abandoned, even for monks and nuns-and in 1525, Luther married a former nun, Katherine von Bora. The sacraments were reduced from seven to two: baptism and the Lord's Supper. Luther revised the Latin liturgy and translated it into German, allowing the laity to receive the consecrated wine as well as the Host, substituting a new popular hymnody for Gregorian chant. Emphasis in worship changed from...
...early '40s, my brother was given a ring represented as Martin Luther's engagement ring. It had been purchased at the Jewelry Exchange in New York from a Russian refugee. Inside the ring is visible "Martin Luther -Catherine von Bora," and under a magnifying glass the 1525 can be seen. We had it checked at the time, and could find out only that the silver was old enough to date the ring correctly, that the engraving was the type done in the 16th century, and that the ruby was genuine...
...please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist Erasmus to remark that the Reformation "had started out like a tragedy, but ended as all comedies doin a wedding." Now from East Germany comes word that Luther's wedding ring, missing since World War I, has apparently been rediscovered in the keeping of a Schonberg family. Engraved on it are the names...
Writer & Patron. Things came hard to him from the beginning. A Mexican with enough Irish in him to make Quinn his real name, he was bora in Chihuahua during Pancho Villa's revolt. Fleeing the country, his 16-year-old mother carried him 500 miles on her back to Juarez and eventually to El Paso, where his 19-year-old father rejoined them. "My youth was all whirlwinds of sand and threatening rain." he says. The family rode a cattle car to California, where they worked m orchards picking fruit and nuts, eating walnut gruel for breakfast and sleeping...