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Metal Badge. Amazed by the tunic's power to draw pilgrims, Pope Leo X and the Archbishop of Trier agreed to display it every seven years. Although wars, revolutions and the Reformation stopped its regular appearance, Tunica Domini never lost its appeal. In 1810 about 250,000 pilgrims went to see it, and at the last showing, in 1933, the tally was 2,000,000. Since Cologne's Joseph Cardinal Frings unveiled the tunic for the 1959 pilgrimage last month, almost a million Roman Catholics have visited the cathedral...
...anger the powerful Lorenzo, Savonarola replied grimly: "Though I am here a stranger and he the highest citizen, yet I shall remain and he shall depart." In 1492 Lorenzo was dead. Echoing in the ears of the impressed Florentines was the preacher's reiterated warning: "Ecce gladius Domini super terram, cito et velociter [Behold the sword of the Lord, swift and sure, over the earth...
...this project is based on the belief that after twelve such plans the country will not have returned circle to her present condition. Thus the cyclical calendar is being replaced, of necessity, by a chronological (which is not synonymous with cyclical, as your article so erroneously implies), dated Anno Domini, as the scientific world civilization overtakes India. Perhaps this fact is symbolic; the lectures will attempt to show that...
...gets the man over. It will delight Truman's admirers, and it will cause those who deplore him to gnash their teeth. Nobody, however, can deny that it is a strange and wonderful fact that the man pictured in Mr. President can be President of the U.S., anno Domini...
...knees before the Holy Door of St. Peter's, white-mantled Pope Pius XII lifted a golden trowel. In the center of the door's threshold, he placed a dab of slaked lime with the words: "In fide et virtute Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Filii Dei Vivi [In the faith and the strength of Our Lord Jesus Christ, Son of the Living God]." Continuing to intone the Latin formula, he placed lime to the right and left on the threshold, then laid three bricks-one gilt and two silvered-in the mortar. Thus, a year after...