Word: cyrillus
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...accordion ever managed to achieve respectability is still a matter that confounds world civilization. It was named in Vienna in 1829 by one Cyrillus Demian. Right away, it should have been called the discordion, but nobody anticipated the disaster that would befall. Little was heard of Demian after that, but it is easy to speculate that he was invited to leave Austria and settled in China in plenty of time for the earthquake season. The Red Cross has not yet been able to confirm this...
...announced that on March 19, festival of St. Joseph, Patron of the Universal Church, he would celebrate a solemn mass of expiation, propitiation, reparation, for Russia's sacrilege, would make special appeal to Russia's ancient protectors, St. Basil, St. Nicholas, St. Cyrillus, St. Therese. He asked all Christians to join him, offered confident assurance: "Divine providence on the moment designated by it will prepare to give the necessary means to repair the moral and material ruins of those immense regions, which constitute a sixth part of the whole universe...
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