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...Josiah Quincy determined to build a new library. After failing to get any money from the State Legislature, he received a large gift from Christopher Gore "to build an enduring monument to preserve the memory of Massachusetts' former Governor and Senator, Christopher Gore." Allegedly designed after King's College Chapel in Cambridge, England, the enduring monument, Harvard's new library, was built in a style euphemistically labeled by contemporaries as "Fourteenth Century Gothic...
...daybreak one morning, a girl with a bright kerchief over her head walked into the chapel of the Maryknoll mother house near Ossining, N.Y. in the company of a group of black-hooded sisters. Soon, the religious were intent on their missals, following the recital of the Mass, while the visitor slyly tried to peer about without moving her head. The sisters were full of piety; the girl in the kerchief was full of curiosity. She was TIME Researcher Deirdre Mead Ryan, at work on the week's cover story...
Compline, the last hour of the Divine Office, is sung at 7 p.m. and closes with a candlelight procession in the chapel. Real recreation comes now, from 7:30 to 8:30. The sisters usually spend it in the large, attractive community room, chatting. At 9 o'clock all sisters pause wherever they are to recite to themselves the De Profundis for the dead. Curfew rings at 9:30, but not all the sisters go right to bed. Mother Mary Columba's light burns late into the night...
When Belisarius and the Eunuch Narses conquered Italy for Justinian in 540, they re-established Ravenna as the Western capital of the Byzantine empire. Justinian and Theodora, his empress, ordered it suitably adorned. The rendering of Christ in armor for the Archbishop's Chapel, a rare phenomenon in art, may reflect the warlike nature of the Byzantines, who held the view that Christianity could and should be spread by the sword. But the Ravenna Christ looks more loving than awesome. A beardless youth, He lightly treads the lion and the serpent while presenting His eternal promise...
Died. Evie Hone, 62, famed Irish-born stained-glass artist, whose dazzling, angularly primitive windows glitter in some 20 churches all over the British Isles (among the most widely praised: her Crucifixion window in Eton's restored 15th-century chapel-TIME, June 30, 1952); of a heart attack; in Dublin...