Word: chr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adapted from Chrétien de Troyes
...story is adapted from the narrative of the 12th century French poet Chrétien de Troyes, who wrote the first formal version of the Grail legend. Perceval (Fabrice Luchini), a Welsh lad of sublime simplicity, encounters five knights galloping after distressed damsels. At first he takes the warriors for angels, but when he learns they are men like him self, he sets out to find King Arthur, that famous knight maker. Perceval's mother had told him to help ladies in trouble but to expect no more than a kiss, and perhaps a ring, in return. He misreads...
...Roman Catholics from Joseph Cardinal Malula. 54, Archbishop of Kinshasa and one of Africa's three black cardinals. Malula, though long an advocate of African culture, balked at Christians giving up their baptismal names, and said so in an article in the Catholic weekly magazine, Afrique Chrétienne. Roman Catholic Mobutu promptly bounced the cardinal from his government-owned residence and suspended the magazine for six months. At a rally. Mobutu said that his onetime close friend Malula "must no longer be Archbishop of Kinshasa." Last week the situation seemed to ease somewhat...