Word: cabrini
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among them, Pope Pius X (under whom the young Pacelli served), Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, first U.S. citizen to be raised to sainthood...
...leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler's day-among them Joan of Arc, Terese of Lisieux, Pope St. Pius X, Mother Cabrini (first U.S. citizen to be canonized), Father Isaac Jogues and seven other French Jesuit missionaries martyred by Indians in Canada and New York...
...good enough for the President of Italy, it should be good enough for a U.S. high school." Bristling with indignation, Sculptor Fazzini pointed out that he had done the altar columns for the new American College in Rome, had made a 10-ft statue of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, America's first saint, for Rome's Church of Saint Eugenius. "Where's Bristol?" Fazzini angrily demanded. "To know who I am all you have to do is open any art publication or see who won the first prize at the international Biennale of Venice." Back in Bristol...
Nowadays Fazzini has little time for such expressionistic experiments. Last week he was hard at work in Rome supervising casting on his current project, a 7,000,000-lira traditional-style altarpiece in honor of Mother Cabrini for the Church of Saint Eugenius. "The church is still attached to tradition," he said. "I made some concessions...