Word: church
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...house. She appeared to them on her balcony. She wanted to die, she said, in the presence of the faithful. Somewhat later, the tinkle of a little silver bell in the darkness announced the passage of the village priest coming to perform the last rites of the church for Maria. Near midnight a cry went up: "She's sweating! She's sweating!" A deep shiver ran through the crowd. Then, above the dim hubbub of questions, a shrill exalted voice: "She's sweating blood!" "It's a miracle," screamed an old woman, "we'll have...
...they worked in the fields and vineyards, laughed, danced at festivals, married and bore children, Maria grew more lonely. She dressed always in black, like a nun. Almost every day she made her way alone along the dusty grey road from her family's farmhouse to the parish church. She ministered gently to ailing peasants who came to her for cures. Though she performed no miracles, it was said that once, when she was caught in a drenching storm in the open country, her garments remained miraculously...
Beautiful Death. For four days, the newspapers played the story for all it was worth, and then some. They bickered over whether Ruth really knew that he had cancer of the throat, or had merely known -since the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church were administered July 21-that he was bound to die; they told conflicting stories about whether Teropterin had been used to treat him. They quoted the priest who blessed the Babe ("He died a beautiful death"). They quoted or put quotes into the mouths of moppets who hung around the hospital ("Urchins from nearby brownstone...
America's Town Meeting (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). "Is the Church Failing Our Youth?"-discussed by Minister-Miler Gil Dodds and others...
...most representative meeting of the Christian Church since the Reformation opened at Amsterdam this week. From 44 countries (six of them behind the iron curtain) and 150 denominations, 450 delegates gathered for the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches. Every major branch of the Christian Church was represented-except one; the Vatican sent no delegate, but an "official observer...