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...body on them, swung himself over to the chair. He had trouble straddling it, his face to the hillock. Quickly Caruso's pudgy body was bound to the chair's back. Then he was left with the priest. They talked. Caruso prayed and kissed a tiny crucifix attached to a specially blessed rosary that Pope Pius XII had sent him. The priest stepped away...
...gone into this semi-deserted mansion to obtain a better view of the battle. As we entered the hall, covered with dust and broken glass, we were amazed to see a magnificent early Florentine crucifix hanging among the smashed mirrors and torn paper...
Special police slowed down traffic. Streetcars crept at a snail's pace past the archiepiscopal residence. Inside, on his deathbed, lay an 84-year-old Prince of the Church. The fingers of one hand clutched a crucifix. Weakly the prelate raised the crucifix, gave his last blessing to those kneeling around his bed. Thus to His Eminence William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, fortified by the last rites of the Church and consoled by Pope Pius' cabled message of "eternal affection," death came in Boston last week...
...Catholic chaplains I have talked with. One or two glamorous incidents on a life raft or in an airplane might make the headlines. The picture of a crucifix and a scapular medal gives the impression that every soldier says an Act of Contrition every night. But I have found instances of Catholics who don't even know, the Hail Mary and as far as the Act of Contrition is concerned, don't make me laugh! I have had soldier after soldier repeat after me word for word the Act of Contrition so that I could give him absolution...
American Mural. In Boise, Idaho, the FBI hoped that somebody would catch Leo Laverne Leroy, suspected parole violator, with his shirt down. His identifying tattoos: two American flags, a rising sun, a shield with an eagle, a bird, a rose, a butterfly, two stars, a sailing ship, a crucifix, an Indian girl, a heart, a spread eagle, a ballet dancer, a dragon, a sail boat, a girl's head, some flowers, a brace let, three hearts, a setting sun, a Pearl Harbor scene, three race horses, and the legends: "U.S.A. 1931" and "Manila...