Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Partisans of Adam & Eve navels include no known Communists (as professional atheists, Communists do not believe in Adam & Eve), do include such great Renaissance religious painters as Tintoretto, Masaccio, Titian, Michelangelo. Michelangelo painted a navel on his recumbent figure of Adam in the Pope's Sistine Chapel, died (1564) without ever having heard of Karl Marx, Stalin or Earl Browder...
...realistic detail in a stained glass English church window may stir up almost as brisk a blaze of controversy as the destroyer detail of the window recently ordered removed from the Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base (TIME, April 10). The new window will be unveiled this week in St. Andrew's Church, Cransley, Northamptonshire. A cigar may touch off the fireworks. The window shows the signing of the Atlantic Charter (1941). Below the guns of the battleship Prince of Wales sit President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill, who is, as usual, smoking...
Many a U.S. churchgoer was shocked last week by a stained glass window. The window, intended for the Roman Catholic Chapel of Our Lady of Victory at the Norfolk Naval Operating Base, had been designed by Wilbur Herbert Burnham, a famed designer of church windows. But this one was different. It showed the Virgin Mary surrounded by tanks, antiaircraft guns, planes, blimps. Instead of the Infant Jesus, the Virgin was holding a destroyer-escort vessel...
Last week St. Andrew's Chapel at Hartsdale, N.Y., and its minister celebrated their birthdays together. For St. Andrew's it was a rebirthday. Just a year had passed since the Rev. George William Edwards saved the minuscule mission from folding. For Mr. Edwards it was his 53rd birthday and a milestone in an unusual religious experience, a kind of modern Pilgrim's Progress. Says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry Sloane Coffin: "Mr. Edwards' case is unique...
...parish. It had long dragged out a flickering life as a mission. In 1942 St. Andrew's threatened to flicker out for good. Mr. Edwards, then only a lay reader, decided that he had found his charge. He took over the pulpit at St. Andrew's Chapel...