Word: christe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stole into the moradas which are the secret churches of Los Hermanos Penitentes-the Penitent Brothers. In each morada the Elder Brother of the community presided over ceremonies which were a prelude to the 40 days of Lent, spent by all Penitentes in bloody emulation of the sufferings of Christ. One by one the brothers bowed before a Sangrador who with a jagged piece of glass gouged crisscrosses on their backs. The penitents would keep their wounds open and raw until Easter, often by rubbing rock salt in them...
...certain 40-year-old woman was taken first to a church, then to a Franciscan convent in Earling, Iowa. Apparently an energumen, she had exhibited symptoms of diabolical possession for a dozen years: she could not pray, take communion or even pronounce the name of Christ. Doctors had examined her, found her neither mentally nor physically abnormal. With the approval of the Bishop of Des Moines, the woman was made ready for exorcism by learned Father Theophilus, who upon 19 prior occasions had successfully made use of the Church's ancient rite, canonically available to all priests, for casting...
...surplice and violet stole, Father Theophilus repeated the prayers of the Church and loosed all the forces of the Lord at the devils day after day for 23 days. Finally, the Iowa woman smiled and for the first time in twelve years said: "My Jesus, mercy! Praised be Jesus Christ...
...father was a Scotsman who was taken to Utah by his immigrant family after their conversion to the faith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They covered the last thousand miles westward on foot. David Eccles prospered, founding one of the Northwest's great lumber companies, later branching into beet-sugar, banks, insurance, rapid transit. Before he died in 1912 he persuaded Son Marriner to accept his church's "call." Two early years of Reserve Board Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles' life were spent in Scotland in the frock coat and silk...
...need. Between these extremes there is a vast theological any-man's-land. In George Bernard Shaw's preface to Androcles and the Lion, in the form of a running commentary on the New Testament, the British playwright made a convincing Socialist out of Jesus Christ. But Christian Conservatives point to Christ's statement: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things [food, shelter, clothing] shall be added unto you. The Roman Catholic Church is opposed to Communism and Socialism insofar as they are materialistic, violent and irreligious. To Catholics the encyclicals...