Word: fleur
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thousands of Roman Catholic Churches even in many where the roster of the saints is no more than hinted at by half a dozen effigies. Last week in St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan, Patrick Cardinal Hayes blessed a new altar for La Petite Fleur, St. Thérèse. The altar had been presented by Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas F. Brady; it was made of pure white Carrara marble. Above the altar was a marble statue of the little Saint. The altar is surrounded by a Florentine framework of marble chiseled as fine as lace. Five hundred people...
...expense of F. J. La Fleur, captain of the Princeton team, the Crimson captain, F. R. G. Chevalier '29, winner of the individual championship last year, won on the first board, by the use of a strong offensive. Chevalier scored after 36 moves...
...Take that magazine away from the juror," Bailiff George Le Fleur shouted across the court room to Deputy Sheriff Jim Hogan. Deputy Sheriff Hogan said no reading matter was allowed in the jury box. "Look here, you're going to get in trouble with me," the juror said. "I'm going to tell the judge on you." "I hope you do," he said, as he walked away...
...fame swept throughout the world. At Paris, special permission was sought from the Pope to name a church after her-L'Eglise de la Petite Fleur. Welsh Catholics placed their Apostolate of the Faith under her protection. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State planted the Irish standard before her tomb. The Bishop of Alaska confided his scattered Indians and Eskimos to her charge. A Catholic cathedral in the newest diocese in the U. S.-Monterey-Fresno-is to be built in her honor.*Two years ago, the Pope beatified her; more than 60,000 persons went to Rome...
Last Sunday, His Holiness Pope Pius XI celebrated the rites for can- onization for Sainte Thérèse, La Petite Fleur (the Little Flower), in St. Peter's Church, Rome. The ceremony began at 8 o'clock in the morning and ended at 2 o'clock in the afternoon; but long before, at 4 o'clock in the morning, street cars, taxis and private automobiles began to move a vast number of pilgrims to St. Peter's. Nearly 70,000 persons crowded into the basilica, being the greatest number that ever assembled there...