Word: deaths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Auschwitz, he said, "We could tell by the color of the smoke whether those being burned had been starved to death or still had flesh on their bones. If they had starved, the smoke was black. If it was white, they still had flesh...
...Receive . . . this red hat, the sign of the unequaled dignity of the cardinalate, by which it is declared that thou shouldst show thyself intrepid even to death by the shedding of thy blood, for the exaltation of the blessed faith...
...were in charge of important churches in and around Rome. Yet while there was evil in the world, there would be danger, even at the center of Christendom. The cardinals were reminded that they as well as those who went among the infidel were expected to be faithful unto death...
...Stephen the first martyr (about 50 A.D.).* On the walls of St. Stephen's are 34 frescoes showing scenes of Christian martyrdom-St. Margaret, her breast torn with hooks; Bishop Artemius, crushed between stone slabs; Bishop Simeon cut to pieces with knives. But not all martyrdom involves death. One fresco at St. Stephen's tells of a 4th Century persecution of Christians by King Unericus in North Africa. The description reads: "Those who talked and raised their hands against the king had their tongues and hands...
...other French officers are captured in the early days of the war and, after being treated with extreme courtesy by the members of a German fighter squadron at the front, are shuttled through a long series of PW camps inside Germany. The film deals with their fate, the death of one of them, and the subsequent escape of the other...