Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Father has often lifted his voice against warfare, more than once deplored destruction from the air. But never before has the full power of papal rhetoric been turned on a specific bombing. Last week, while the bombs fell four miles and more away, the Pope prayed in his private chapel. Later he visited San Lorenzo fuori le Mura, found it "in grandissimi parte" destroyed, though the altar and the tomb of Pius IX survived. Drawing upon his rich reservoir of sonorous prose, he wrote the Vicar General of Rome...
...steering course 017 from the Square and holding, it for three minutes you find Holden Chapel close on the starboard bow. A small brick building, beautifully proportioned, it is one of the University's most nearly perfect examples of Georgian architecture...
...only twenty years, however, was it actually in use as a chapel for in 1769 the Royal Governor transferred the General Court to Cambridge and the House convened in Holden Chapel. Here, James Qtis delivered one of his most effective orations. Later, Colonial troops were barracked in it. Then in 1783 Dr. Joseps Warren those it as the home of the infant Harvard Medical School. Next, an an anatomical museum, its history was characterized by undergarduate raids in search of human skulls--highly prized as room ornaments. As a chemical laboratory it was the scene of a near tragedy when...
...Holden Chapel long ago outlived its religious function. Perhaps too, it has now passed beyond its active stage as a general handy room. Its main value now is that of a relic, a museum which exists in semi-obscurity, mainly in the minds of antiquarians. To the few odd souls, however, who appreciate its architectural qualities, there comes the hope that some day it may be restored to its original beauty and dignity...
Thirty-five years ago a sarcophagus weighing 3½ tons was found buried in the old chapel of St. Edmund at Thetford. The sarcophagus lay around until two weeks ago when a Mrs. Jameson, archeologist wife of a local doctor, convinced that it contained Sweyn's bones, agitated for recommitment. Rev. Ronald Cooling, Vicar of St. Mary's, Thetford was about to conduct the ceremony last week when Bishop Herbert of Norwich intervened. Experts, he decreed, must first study the bones...