Word: cyprian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week there arrived in the U. S. an account of a Sunday service at the Circus Krone, a European outfit in London, in which the animals were blessed with full Roman Catholic ritual. Thus a new British organization, the Catholic Circus Guild, made its bow. Dominican Father Cyprian Rice preached a sermon; another Dominican, Prior Antoninus Maguire, sprinkled holy water from an aspergillum on a tiger, a trained Pekingese, some horses and six pretty little albino donkeys. Three large brown bears were brought in, pushed into seats, blessed and photographed, looking clumsily reverent and infinitely...
...cast will be made up of numerous chorus "girls," pirates, and stokers, as well as the following: Willie Porter R. S. Hewlett '33 Bob Holden J. H. Leatherbee '33 Shirley W. F. Draper '35 Professor Crawfish Robert Breckenridge '34 Cyprian (professor's young son) J. T. Dennison '34 Bertram Bannister (pirate chief) A. M. Jones, Jr. '35 Twitter W. A. Munroe '33 Aunt Caroline Albert Pratt '33 Bartender Stuart Scott '33 Steward W. B. Cudahy...
...stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs destroyed Carthage, a waning community...
...propaganda, Newman became so extreme an Anglo-Catholic that it was not long before he went the whole way and entered the Roman Catholic Church. He took many followers with him, but some balked. Said he: "A person in Devonshire is all but made up?he sticks at St. Cyprian. . . ." Newman's reception was chilly, to say the least; the Pope sent him congratulations on recovering from a wretched heresy. For years he was looked upon with suspicion by his new superiors, his suggestions ignored, his plans thwarted. In 1848 he was put in charge of a mission in Birmingham...