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With naive enthusiasm he announced that Lincoln was not, as some said, unfriendly to Catholicism, but that "when Father St. Cyr came to say mass for Lincoln's stepmother, Mr. Lincoln would prepare the altar himself. Indeed with his own hands Abraham Lincoln carved out six wooden chairs to be used at the mass. And if I could only find those chairs, I'd pay for them with their weight in gold...
Last week William Eleazar Barton, hoary custodian of Lincolnia, proclaimed that Father Cyr, who his Eminence declared celebrated the masses at Lincoln's stepmother's, had not yet been ordained when Lincoln left his father's home, that Sarah Bush Lincoln was not Catholic by birth and that she died in the communion of the Disciples Church, that Father St. Cyr never celebrated mass in the Lincoln abode, that if Cardinal Mundelein really wanted the six carved chairs, Dr. Barton would gladly exchange them for their weight in gold...
...clock this morning in Sever 11. At the same time, Professor Wright will give a rival attraction to vagabonds in Harvard 1, when he talks on Esther and Athalie, the two plays which Racine wrote near the end of his life for Madame de Maintenon's school at St. Cyr...
Maurice Paul Emmanuel Sarrail was born at Carcassonne 69 years ago. In 1877 he was appointed from St. Cyr, French West Point, a sous-liéutenant. In the Army his career was by no means brilliant. He was promoted by regular stages until 1914, when he was made a divisional general...
...Marshal Pétain, commissioned from St. Cyr (French West Point) in 1878, specialized in staff work at the Ecole de Guerre. At the beginning of the War he was only a colonel, but his great military genius, first recognized by General Castelanu, rapidly won him merited recognition, promotion and honors. His greatest claim to fame rests upon the heroic defense of Verdun and his skillful handling of mutinous French troops in 1917. Possibly had there been no Pétain, France would, be paying Germany an indemnity...