Word: crucifixes
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William Rush was not long satisfied with figurehead carving. Bemoaning the fact that he never had time to learn marble cutting, he did portraits of Washington, Franklin. Voltaire, Rousseau, Tilliam Penn, Lafayette, even carved a huge wooden crucifix for the Catholic Church of St. Augustine in Philadelphia. In 1844 an anti-Catholic mob destroyed...
...Pope Benedict XIV (1675-1758), though a pious and respected man, was addicted to cards and profane language, kept a crucifix in his apartments to curb his tongue. Once, in one of Christendom's great moments, he became so incensed at a partner at cards that he signaled to have the crucifix removed, let loose such a volley of oaths that his companions cried him down: "Holy Father, for God's sake, Holy Father!" So, at least, writes Valerie Pirie in The Triple Crown, a lively account of the Papacy published last month (Putnam...
Silence! An emaciated Christ on a crucifix. On his legs German army boots through which the nails have been driven, on his face a gas mask...
...promptly became her aide. In Washington he lives quietly with one of his married daughters. His two sons are dead and his wife, a large Irishwoman, lives mostly in Boston with another married daughter. In private life he is an unusually pious Catholic, carries a rosary, also a crucifix blessed for a Happy Death, and on which, if ill or unable to get to church, he may gain a plenary indulgence by saying the Stations of the Cross, reciting 14 Our-Fathers, Hail-Marys, Glorias and praying for the intention of the Holy Father...
...State Penitentiary at Salt Lake City one dawn last week, hooded and clutching a crucifix after a last-minute shift from Mormonism to Roman Catholicism, Delbert Green was led out into a dirt courtyard, strapped in a chair against a wall. A physician pressed a stethoscope to his heart, then pinned a red target with a yellow bulls-eye over it. Green's executioners stood 26 ft. away across the court, their guns, of which one contained a blank cartridge, poked through slits in the screen that hid their identity. At the Sheriff's signal, they fired...