Word: doorpost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great voice trumpeted behind him, how must the Saint, on the verge of the Apocalypse, have looked? That was the question Sculptor John Angel has spent eight months trying to answer. Angel, one of the top church sculptors, had been commissioned to carve Saint John for the central doorpost of Manhattan's slowly building Cathedral of Saint John the Divine, which was originally designed to be Romanesque and is gradually growing up to be Gothic...
...rabbi reported: "On one occasion the 'mazooza' [a packet approximately four inches long, which contains a portion of the Scriptures and is nailed to the doorpost of the entrance to the congregation, and is regarded as a very sacred object] was found to be denied and smeared with manure. I, personally, saw that desecration and I myself wiped the surrounding area...