Word: deaconness
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When Shuttlesworth began reading the announcements during a Sunday service, Deacon Robert Pierce rose to declare that the trustees had called an open meeting to discuss Revelation's financial affairs. Shuttlesworth ruled him out of order, and 200 members of the congregation began chanting: "We want a meeting! We want a meeting!" The commotion lasted for nearly an hour, while the police stood by in case things got out of hand. Back came the cops again last Sunday, when Shuttlesworth got into another shouting match with the dissidents...
Against the Klan, some Negroes have formed the "Deacons for Defense and Justice"; its members, many of them troublemakers long before Bogalusa's civil rights crisis occurred, openly sport pistols and rifles. For months, Deacons have exchanged shots and punches with white roughnecks. In June night riders murdered one Negro deputy sheriff and seriously wounded another. Two weeks ago, a Deacon shot and critically wounded a white heckler during a civil rights demonstration...
...Church of the Holy Spirit in Salinas, Calif., one Sunday last month, Mrs. Phyllis Edwards, 48, walked to the altar to minister at 8 o'clock Holy Communion. Dressed in a deaconess' dark blue, nunlike robes surmounted by a deacon's stole, Mrs. Edwards calmly intoned the prayers and then distributed the bread and wine of Communion, which had been consecrated by the church's rector at a previous service...
...Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Center outside Atlanta, Dr. Wilbur Deacon is working with monkeys. Next year, if Congress approves an appropriation of $175,000 covering his work, Dr. Deacon hopes to test human and other spirochetes in chimpanzees. These animals are expensive, but they will bring Dr. Deacon closer to man than any other syphilis vaccine researcher...
...farmer, Makarios was born Mikhail Mouskos, entered the 12th century monastery of Kykko at the age of 13, took his present name, which in Greek means blessed, when he became a deacon. Makarios studied theology at the University of Athens, and after his ordination in 1946 he went to Boston University on a World Council of Churches scholarship. He was elected Bishop of Citium two years later, became Archbishop of Cyprus...