Word: gori
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure of the Child is laid on a heap of straw in the place where tradition says the manger stood...
...steeling of his character began early; and never ceased. He was born on Dec. 21, 1879, in a humble cottage (now a shrine) in the tiny town of Gori in Georgia, an ancient province in transCaucasia. He was one of four children; the others died in infancy. He was baptized Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili. His father was a shoemaker, an alcoholic who beat Joseph unmercifully and finally deserted his family. But his mother loved her son. "[Soso] was always a good boy ... I never had to punish him," she said years later. Working as a laundress, she earned enough money...