Word: feltin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maurice Feltin of Paris came a message welcoming the World Organization for Brotherhood as a rallying of the "most authentic spiritual forces...
...Notre Dame Cathedral on Easter morning, just as Archbishop Maurice Feltin was chanting the Credo, Michel Mourre, a 22-year-old former student for holy orders, dressed in a rented Dominican monk's robe, climbed into the pulpit, grabbed the microphone and roared: "God is dead! I accuse the Catholic Church of infecting the world with a funeral spirit." Some of the congregation of 10,000 rushed forward to drag Mourre from the pulpit. Three of his friends, standing at its foot, threw firecrackers in the faces of the infuriated faithful. Gendarmes arrested Mourre and his three friends...