Word: convention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recognizing the beauty of Assisi's Temple of Minerva, the citizens turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. Correggio, commissioned to paint edifying decorations for a convent, included a Punishment of Juno to point up the perils of false pride. Taddeo di Bartolo decorated the chapel in Siena's Public Palace with a procession of Roman virtues-Prudence, Force, Magnanimity, Justice-plus Jupiter in his sun-god aspect, Mars thundering by in a boxlike chariot. Minerva. Apollo, Aristotle, Caesar, and the Roman general Manius Curius Dentatus...
Before the enclosed grille of the Discalced Carmelite Convent in Cologne, a distinguished German philosopher nervously submitted to a test of humility: she sang a ditty for the brown-robed nuns assembled to examine her for entrance. Later, one of them asked anxiously: "Is she a good needlewoman...
...Edith Stein, whose fame had not penetrated convent walls, never learned to sing or crochet very well, even after she joined the nuns behind the grille. But, as Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, she learned the spiritual lessons of Carmel so well that she has already been proposed as a candidate for beatification in the Roman Catholic Church. In The Scholar and the Cross (Newman Press; $3.50), German-born Author Hilda Graef analyzes Edith Stein and her spiritual saga with rare objectivity. One fact emerges clearly: whether saint or simply, as a friend suggested, "an ideal personality," Edith Stein...
...said her prioress, "was, in fact, a descent from the height of a brilliant career into the depths of insignificance." In the depths of insignificance, Edith Stein changed. She who had often been cool and aloof found herself wearing a red wig and performing a Chaucerian skit during a convent entertainment; she who had been intolerant of weakness learned charity by falling asleep during meditation. In time, says Author Graef, "Edith Stein became a perfectly harmonious spiritual personality...
Pogroms broke out in Germany in November 1938, and association with Jews became a real risk. The prioress of Cologne, who had an entire community to consider, reluctantly sent Sister Benedicta to the order's Dutch convent at Echt. There on Passion Sunday, a few months after her flight from Cologne, Sister Benedicta, with a sense of premonition, received permission from her prioress to offer herself spiritually as a "sacrifice of expiation for true peace: that the reign of Antichrist may perish...