Word: cassock
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time James Walsh knew what he wanted to do most. He wanted to be an altar boy, and wear a long cassock, and move about near the altar of St. Michael's Church, in Newark, N. J., quietly so that the people at mass would say to each other: "That's Jimmy Walsh. He's a swell altar boy." It would be nice also to touch the bright golden cross and to feel the close presence of the chalice...
Peter is growing old. His lust for knowledge, conquest, women, has waned. He catches disease. Torches burn in his belly. He sends for his enemy, the monk Golivin. He puts on the monk's cassock to be carried to the tomb. He starts to dictate his will and dies. Katharina crowns herself. She likes Golivin's brown back, and makes him Patriarch. He says the death mass for the Tsar. After a night with Katharina, Golivin goes back to the Cathedral, throws himself in remorse upon the Tsar's sarcophagus: "Arise! anointed one! Come back...
...Stires, who entered the church wearing cassock and rochet, had stood humbly before the carved reredos while his attending presbyters garbed him in a chimere. And now the prelates laid on him their hands, the "Primus" hung upon his neck the pectoral cross, placed upon his finger a ring, and he was consecrated Bishop of Long Island...
...Legion of Africa, representatives of the other orders, Black Cross Nurses, Negro Boy and Girl Scouts, members of the African Orthodox Catholic Church headed by Dean Toote. Every one was suitably attired, from the Legionaries in black and red uniforms with gold lace, to Dean Toote in a purple cassock with a shoulder-sash of white and pale blue carrying a placard: "Independent Church. The Black Jews of the Judea Tribe of Israel, driven out of Judea into Abyssinia by the Gentiles." There were many other placards. One read: "By the science of perpetual motion, the Negro will conquer Africa...
Died. Agostino, Cardinal Richelmy, Archbishop of Turin, 72, at Turin, Italy. He joined the Garibaldian Volunteers in the War of 1866, and for years afterwards wore his red shirt under his cassock. In 1915, when Italy entered the World War, he organized priests for duty as army chaplains in the mountains of the Trentino, where they carved altars out of snow and said mass in a temperature lower than zero...