Word: chapel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Exuberant in all things, the people of Naples reserve their most pious transports for their patron San Gennaro (St. Januarius), Bishop of Beneventum who was martyred about 305 A. D. In the treasure chapel of Naples Cathedral are a silver bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro...
...become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...acre campus. One day last week it suddenly came alive with young women in sports clothes hurrying along neat walks with bridge lamps, books, trash baskets, suitcases. Three hundred and seventy of them were freshmen. After supper they and 854 upperclassmen trooped into a red-roofed, Collegiate-Gothic chapel. There President Henry Noble MacCracken, his full, pink face looking some-what careworn, droned a mild message of greeting to the effect that while three-score years and ten is a respectable age for a human, it is mere childhood for an up & coming institution like Vassar...
...Robert R. Wicks, The University Chapel, Princeton...
Dean Wallace B. Donham '98 followed President Conant and complained all he had "left to talk about" was "the Glee Club, the Chapel, and the CRIMSON." He told the future business administrators to take auto trips "to see New England while the leaves are turning...