Word: derblom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Dr. Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom. 65. Archbishop of Upsala. Primate of the Lutheran Church in Sweden, winner of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize; of heart disease; in Upsala. Long a crusader for world peace, he believed it could be secured by unifying Christian denominations. In 1925 he summoned the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work at Stockholm (leader of U. S. delegation was Dr. Samuel Parkes Cadman), expounded his plan of "Evangelical Catholicity...
Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe, died at his castle of Skokloster. To his funeral came Sweden's King, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and a delegation of Swedish nobles. With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever...
Then came the most important part of the ceremony. Clutching the ancient key in his black-cotton-gloved hand, Archbishop Söderblom walked to the edge of the nearby lake, stepped gingerly in the stern-sheets of the very small rowboat and sat down next to Count Magnus' nephew, Baron Friedrich von Essen (no Brahe, but heir to the Brahe estates). The silk-hatted, saturnine Majordomo of Castle Skokloster took the oars. While Sweden's King watched from the shore, Bishop, Baron and Majordomo rowed to the middle of the lake and plop went...
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