Word: devout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among the very few Americans to be granted special audience by the Pope while the Cardinals-designate wait for their birettas were Mr. Isaac Gimbel and Mr. Charles Gimbel, owners of great stores. They came with a letter from Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia. Marshal Foch, a devout Catholic, also came to town...
...Practical Religion" by the devout Herbert Poley argues eloquently for the Hartford Plan to remedy ecclesiastical ills, the essence of which is to embrace theoretically opposite views at the same time, and then to live according to the mean. Hartford, I predict, due to this article, will become the center of the next world movement for something or other...
...Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders of the Faith was given to the world in 1608, when he published his Introduction to the Devout Life...
...Filipinos are Christians and have been for a early four centuries. The Filipines were Christianized by the Spanish monks in the sixteenth century and the thoroughness of the work of these Spanish ecclesiastics is testified to by the fact that today 95 percent of the entire populace are devout Catholics. We are the only nation in Asia which professor Christianity as its chief religion...
Charles Darwin. His book may cause many devout people to commit themselves...