Word: christy
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...
...actually closing the Holy Door, the Pope immersed his blessed trowel in holy water, dried it on especially blessed linen. He scooped up a little mortar; picked up three small rectangular stones emblematic of the Trinity; set each carefully in place, saying: "In fide et virtute domini nostri Jesu Christi filii Dei vivi." With the second trowelful he said: "Qui apostolorum principi dixit tu es Petrus"; and with the third: "Et super hanc petram aedificabo ecclesiam meam." Into a special crevice he had placed coins and medals commemorative of the Holy Year just then closed for at least another quarter...
...Davison Scholarship Fund announced the names of the three Cantabs (Cambridgers) who will study and play next year in the U. S. At Yale-H. H. Thomas of Sidney, Sussex, winner of the Chancellor's medal for English verse. At Princeton-W. P. N. Edwards, of Corpus Christi able golfer. At Harvard-G. C. R. Ely of Trinity, who recently gained a first in the law tripos...
Particularly, they hope to insert two festivals for permissive observance-the feast days of Corpus Christi and of The Falling Asleep of the Virgin Mary (which corresponds to the Catholic 'Assumption...
...Elton is to be visiting lecturer at the University in English in the modern field during the second half of the next academic year. A graduate of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1884, he has been King Alfred Professor of English Literature in the University of Liverpool since...