Word: christs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...encyclical, the latest of a series sent out by the 259 popes, is unusually aggressive in the Church's cause. It exhorts the faithful to "militate courageously under the banners of Christ the King, to go back with apostolic fervor to the rebels and misguided ones and strive to maintain the rights of God himself intact," for "when in international meetings and parliaments the sweet name of our Redeemer is passed in shameful silence it is highly necessary to acclaim it publicly, announcing everywhere the rights of His sovereign dignity and power...
This letter is part of His Holiness's program of establishing the "Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ." Further in line with this program he announced also in his letter a new Catholic feast, the Feast of the Kingdom of Christ to be celebrated the last Sunday in October, except this year when he himself was scheduled to celebrate it by pontifical high mass in the basilica of St. Peter's on New Year's eve, that is, on Dec. 31, St. Sylvester's. Prelates everywhere were scheduled similarly to celebrate the masses...
Cables carried the news from Madras. The Theosophical Society had opened the celebration of its 50th anniversary. To greet the aged President Annie Besant was a sufficiently grand collection of 5,000 delegates of 37 nationalities. But there were no further details concerning the "reincarnation of Christ in the person of J. Krishnamurti...
...weeks ago he sailed unostentatiously from the U. S. to attend the Madras conference, leaving behind him in the Philosophers' Book Shop, Manhattan, one Captain R. L. Jones, full of faith. To a reporter of the New York Herald Tribune, the bookish Captain hinted that the reincarnation of Christ in Mr. Krishnamurti would occur quite soon, he being now 30 years of age?again reminiscent. And this information the Herald Tribune reporter expansively divulged to the public...
...storm comes up on the return voyage. "Ivan the Terrible begins to spin like a top. "Peter is desperate. "He falls on his knees. "He weeps. "He beats the sailors. "He kisses them. "He prays. "He promises the Lord Jesus Christ a cross if he will save him from shipwreck. He promises to appoint Him a Russian Rear-Admiral. "Ivan the Terrible is hurled upon the coast and shattered to pieces. "Peter and the sailors are washed upon the shore like dead fish...