Word: caterina
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...open-air theatre. I have organized schools and workshops to renew the Italian traditions of the minor arts. I beat on iron, I blow glass, I engrave hard stones, I print with my wood blocks, I color stuffs, I carve bone and boxwood, I interpret the recipes of Caterina Sforza and I distill perfumery. And I beg the head of the government of Italy to accept my offering whole and entire, and to declare it to be irrevocable and inalienable in any way or at any time; witness the living who are alert and the dead who watch...
...nine-day period began with his canonizing as Saints Lucia Filippini, foundress of the religious educational order Maestre Pie Filippini, and Caterina Thoma, a Spanish canoness. That morning he refused to take the elevator down from his private apartment, walked down the long flights. In his heavy vestments he mounted his sedia gestatoria and was carried to the canonization ceremonies at St. Peter's. They lasted five hours. He perspired profusely, several times passed his hand wearily over his face. Near him was the Rt. Rev. Thomas Joseph Walsh, Bishop of Newark, N. J., only American prelate so honored...