Word: calendar
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Whether or not Bishops Kemper and Tuttle are worthy of sainthood, many a conscientious Episcopalian doubts the practicality of Bishop Welles's suggestion. Since the Reformation, the Anglican Communion has largely contented itself with the ancient saints of the church calendar. The most famous exception was King Charles I, charged with treason and beheaded by a provisional government under Cromwell in 1649. After the Resto ration the Church of England acclaimed him as a martyr for his unwillingness to renounce the Anglican faith, officially put his feast into the calendar of saints.-Nearest thing to a U.S. Episcopal saint...
...measure remains on the House calendar and can be called up whenever its supporters desire. Vinson expected no action for at least three weeks, however, or until there is more prospect for a compromise...
...Churchill's leaving was yet to be felt. Until the word was official and irrevocable, the nation held back its full measure of tribute for the man who was by common consent the greatest Englishman of the 20th century. But there was no one unmindful of the unrolling calendar of events...
...necromancer's divining board. Moran did find what he believes to be the key. It was not from the signs of the solar zodiac that he got it; it was from the 28 signs of the Luna (i.e., moon) zodiac, which were invented long before "to fix the calendar and to determine the times of planting and seasons of harvest and the religious ceremonies which accompanied them." From these primitive astrological signs, the Chinese built up many of their own characters. Other civilizations apparently evolved a sort of shorthand which grew, in spite of cuneiform and hieroglyphics, into...
...Alphabet and the Ancient Calendar Signs (Pacific Books...