Word: christly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special yellow signs marking the way. What they came to see-retired army officers, shopkeepers, typical British families in holiday clothes-was a rectangular building faced with white Portland stone and topped by a spire sheathed in lead-coated copper: the London Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It was the first Mormon temple to be built in Britain and the second in or near Europe (the other is in Bern, Switzerland). The new temple was opened to the public for 17 days, but after its dedication this week, only Mormons may enter who have...
...Duty. In Evansville, Ind., a thief stole an eight-foot painting of Christ from the Camp Reveal chapel, carried it out past a neon sign flashing, "He watches you every minute...
...from the Laplanders of the north, Sculptor Hjorth won admiration. As the central teakwood altarpiece for Jukkasjarvi Church, Hjorth carved a looming Christ with heavy Gauguin overtones, surrounded by the Far North's flowers. On the left stands Laestadius preaching hellfire, while one Lapp smashes a keg of aquavit, another returns a stolen reindeer. On the right, Laestadius begs mercy from a Virgin Mary, while a Lapp lay priest, Raatma the Mild, listens. Dagens Nyheter, Sweden's largest daily, called it "a masterpiece . . . everything is dissolved and recreated in the same breath...
Penance Underground. The custom gained added impetus from the preaching of the Franciscan missionaries, who strongly emphasized the sufferings of Christ's passion in their teachings, and permitted the practice of self-scourging as an act of devotion. When the Franciscans were withdrawn at the close of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries, and the visits of priests to the villages grew increasingly rare, a group of Catholic laymen called Penitentes gradually emerged. Its members conducted services, taught doctrine, visited the sick and buried the dead-in effect performing all the priestly functions except saying Mass...
When Archbishop John B. Lamy set out from Cincinnati for New Mexico in 1850, after the U.S. had wrested the territory from Mexico, he was shocked at the gory penances that the Penitentes-also known as the Brothers of the Blood of Christ-exacted of themselves. Finally, he banned the group. But the Penitentes went underground. Their practices gradually softened, and in 1947 the church once again recognized the Hermandad de Nuestro Padre Jesus...