Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet, burying a black-robed brother without a coffin. One shot is of a Trappist motto: The bliss of dying without regret is well worth the pain of living without contentment. Fade-out of the film is a monk's head superimposed upon a painting of Jesus Christ...
...Padre" Abbate's people believe that he was not born of mortal parents but formed from "the ashes of Jesus Christ." Once he crowned the small daughter of one of his Italian-born parishioners, Mrs. Grace Ippolita, as "the Virgin Mary," instructing his followers to worship her. In 1923 the "Celestial Messenger" was convicted of ravishing a small girl, was adjudged insane. Convicted later of two more attacks, Abbate was occasionally in jail but always turned loose because of his original insanity. In the Elgin State Hospital (Illinois), where he spent two years, clad in clerical garb, Abbate became...
Nevertheless, all these forces for health failed last fortnight to prevent an epidemic of virulent diarrhea from striking into the nursery of Chicago's St. Elizabeth's Hospital, an institution with no isolated facilities for maternity care, operated by the Poor Handmaids of Jesus Christ. It was the nation's most serious outbreak of this disease. By last week eleven of 19 affected children were dead, only two definitely out of danger...
...Guthrie, who relished the dramatic, including the Bishop's helpless wrath, filled his services with incense, colored lights, gongs and other cinematic musical effects. Typical was his "Dithyrambic Invocation and Adoration of the Christ in Us," a liturgical invention (based on works by Arthur Edward Waite) in which a cantor and choir assisted sonorous-voiced Dr. Guthrie in passages like the following...
...resented doing militia service for "this damned Fascism.'' Everywhere they went the visage of Il Duce made jowls at them from stencils on walls, effigies in street parades. In the Church of San Marco in Florence Peter Blume noted an older icon-a cheap statue of Christ crowned with thorns and bedecked with gift trinkets...