Word: christian
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the organ sounds its joyous diapason, Cardinal O'Connell will listen with the ears of a notable composer. In a basement he found the oldest Christian church in Rome. In another basement likewise, when he was a student at St. Charles College, Maryland, he found a broken-down melodeon. Some of the pipes would sound, however, and he sat there playing, lost to everything else, including his classes...
...custom of singing carols had a definite Christian origin. Early Franciscan friars, strolling through Italy, put the tale of the birth of the Babe into homely ballad form, the better to win simple hearts. Over the Alps they went, throughout the World, singing of the sweet mystery of Bethlehem. Their songs lingered behind them. The Spanish peasant added episodes out of his dark Moorish imagination. In one group of Spanish carols the three wise men become gypsies, who read the palms and tell the fortunes of Jesus, Mary, Joseph. In Germany an ancient custom still endures, in some old-world...
...year of Our Lord's birth is generally calculated, by modern Biblical criticism, as the fourth preceding the Christian era. Reforms in the calendar made by Gregory XIII, when ten days were dropped from the year, were not accepted by certain branches of the Eastern church, which therefore celebrate Christmas approximately at the time of the Western Epiphany...
Adolphus Busch, whose beer is not as potent as it used to be, and the late Festus John Wade, banker, have had two public schools in St. Louis, Mo., named for them. Last week, the Woman's Christian Temperance Union protested, because Brewer Busch's onetime beverage "is now outlawed by the Constitution of our country" and because Banker Wade was a Roman Catholic...
...Mongolia. The two Koslov missions of 1907 and 1922 have revealed to us the extent of the Hsi-hsia literature, in the late middle ages, today absolutely unknown, and the importance of the relations between Western Asia and the Far East via Upper Mongolia at the beginning of the Christian Era. As to the missions in Chinese Turkestan, they have shown, unexpectedly, that Chinese Turkestan, now inhabited by a Turkish population of Mohammedans, was untill the end of the first millennium A. D. the area of a Buddhist culture, developed by a population speaking Indo-European languages, that...