Word: christe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bargained with; they were told and expected to respond immediately. Hell was believed to exist and to be full of properly suffering sinners. Even the most gentle and kind of parents feared hell for themselves and for their children, unless they learned to abide by the Ten Commandments and Christ's teaching...
Among the extraordinary works in this collection are a 14th century processional cross decorated with an enthroned Christ and symbols of the Evangelists from Borbona (see cut); and a superb 13th century Limoges enamel casket, borrowed from the Roman church of Santa Maria in Via Lata (see color pages). There are a number of pieces that, regardless of their function, are extremely beautiful as sculpture. One is an angel from the cathedral of Vetralla, carrying relics of St. Andrew. Made in the early 15th century by the Viterban goldsmith Pietro di Vitale, it has a severe columnar air that distantly...
...Sacred Art" is a 16th century reliquary from the Collegiate Church of Calcata, north of Rome. Two elegantly slim silver-gilt angels hold up a casket surmounted by a crown, studded with rubies and emeralds. It is traditionally believed to contain the only relic left on earth by Jesus Christ. True, Christ ascended bodily into heaven before the eyes of the astonished Apostles after his resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved by a succession of devout guardians, is said to have found its way eventually into the sanctum sanctorum...
...youth groups are out to change the world, but what he offers at Taize -and to them-is essentially a shared life based deeply on prayer. "We should not pray for any useful end," Brother Roger has written, "but in order to create a community of free men with Christ...
...Prohibition amendment failed because it was unenforceable, and that to make an antiabortion law partly successful it would be necessary to revive the Holy Inquisition with the rack, wheel, auto-da-fé and burnings at the stake-all for the glory of God and the loving, gentle Jesus Christ...