Word: edict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...henceforth marrying couples must promise that no one taking part in the wedding would wear "a low-necked dress, short dress, or sleeveless dress." If any did, "the priest in charge will suspend the ceremony." Cuba's young women, 95% of whom are Roman Catholics, bowed to the edict...
When the Inquisition held full sway over Spain, its agents found (and painstakingly listed) 27 different ways in which the "New Christians" continued to worship in their old faith. In 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella published an edict: "There yet remains and is obvious the great harm which has come and still comes to Christians from . . . conversation and communication . . . with the Jews. [They] have made it clear that they would always endeavor by all possible ways and means to ... draw away faithful Christians from our Holy Catholic Church . . . For [this] greatest, most dangerous and most contagious of crimes...
Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
...Holding out a crucifix, Torquemada said: "Judas Iscariot sold Christ for 30 pieces of silver: Your Highness is about to sell Him for 30,000 ducats. Here He is; take Him and sell Him." He left the crucifix on a table and withdrew; shaken, the King declared that the edict would stand...
...action of Phi Kappa Psi's national council--in direct opposition to the edict of an overall body known as the National Interfraternity Council, which last week upheld the right of a local chapter to select its own members--was not based on any constitutional provisions. The national just didn't think that a colored boy should be elected to the Amherst chapter...