Word: felix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy of granting independence upon request, France hoped to keep the friendship of the 13 new states that until this year comprised the French empire in western Africa. As its staunchest ally in the area, France counted on Felix Houphouet-Boigny, 55, the sly old pro who sat in five French Cabinets and is now Premier of the Ivory Coast. Last week Houphouet-Boigny assembled five Presidents, three Premiers and three ministers plenipotentiary* for a conference in the Ivory Coast's boomtown capital of Abidjan, and emerged just 48 hours later to announce "unanimous agreement" on foreign policy questions...
...dealers promptly called in a neighbor priest, who identified the box as a reliquary and the inscription as meaning Caput Sancti Felicis Martyr (the head of St. Felix, Martyr). When church officials cut the ribbons and opened the box, a yellow skull wrapped in red silk stared out at them...
Scientific tests of cloth and bone proved to the church's satisfaction that it was in deed St. Felix's head. The skull hidden in the other bust was identified as that of his friend and fellow 4th century martyr, St. Nabor. Tradition tells that the saints were Moorish soldiers in the army of the Emperor Diocletian, stationed in what is now Milan in about A.D. 303. Under repeated torture they refused to renounce their Christian faith. At last they were both beheaded, and their remains were eventually buried in Milan's oldest Christian cemetery. Turned over...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...
...Felix Frankfurter Reminisces, Frankfurter with Phillips...