Word: devoutly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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True, Sister Nazarena is a religious and devout person, but when it comes to sainthood, I'll nominate the nuns who teach elementary school any time...
Jesus' parents were devout Jews, who probably had a mezuzah (a roll of parchment containing an ancient Hebrew prayer known as the Shema) on the doorpost of their modest home in Nazareth and kept a kosher kitchen. "We may deduce," Aron says, "that Jesus observed the dietary laws." Aron believes that Mary probably put tzitzit, or fringes on the child's coat, in obedience to an injunction in Deuteronomy, and that Joseph taught him the carpenter's trade. "Just as it is necessary to feed one's son," says the Talmud, "so it is necessary...
...that he would run as a Republican candidate in Michigan's 1962 gubernatorial race. George Romney fasted and prayed for 24 hours for divine guidance. His act of faith called attention to the fact that Romney, a remarkably successful and personable industrialist and community leader, is also a devout member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
...apocryphal legend of Ahasuerus. the Wandering Jew condemned by Christ to homeless immortality. If Ahasuerus had not been invented by some unknown storyteller of the Middle Ages, it seems likely that Swedish Author Par Lagerkvist would have reinvented him to embody the mystical dialectic of his own devout skepticism. As a younger man. Lagerkvist-now 70-wrote of himself that he was "a believer without a belief, a religious atheist." Today, after half a century of novels, plays, stories and poems that earned him the Nobel Prize in 1951, Lagerkvist is still obsessed with God, still a believing unbeliever...
Although his enemies later claimed he was illegitimate, Edwin Stanton was born in thoroughly respectable circumstances to an Ohio doctor and his devout Methodist wife. Long before he became Secretary of War. Stanton made a name for himself as an outspoken lawyer who loved the rough-and-tumble of both politics and the courtroom...