Word: jacobus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...firefight, but most reporters suspected that instead the Dutchmen were followed by the army to the rebels, then murdered. A week before their deaths the four Dutchmen had been called in for five hours of questioning by the Hacienda, or treasury, police because the name of one of them, Jacobus Andries Koster, 46, had been on a piece of paper allegedly found on the body of a slain guerrilla. Koster and Jan Kuiper, 39, had a reputation in The Netherlands for deep emotional commitment to Latin American revolutionary movements...
...Verne Hill Jacobus Franklin...
...DIED. Jacobus Johannes Fouché, 82, who as Defense Minister of South Africa helped turn the country into a virtual fortress of white apartheid rule and later served as President from 1968 to 1975; in Cape Town. In 1962, fearing an attack by a black "army of liberation" based in other African nations, Fouché initiated South Africa's largest-ever peacetime military buildup and warned its neighbors: "Stay where you are or there will be trouble...
...Christians were persecuted by Rome, a time when all martyrs were considered saints-along with the Apostles and early church fathers like St. Augustine and St. Jerome. The often embroidered stories of their lives-and deaths-were marked by such extraordinary courage shown and cruelty suffered that books like Jacobus de Voragine's The Golden Legend became bestsellers in medieval Europe. Each saint, often according to the manner of his or her martyrdom, became a patron for a special group. The most grotesquely appropriate, perhaps, is St. Lawrence, the patron saint of cooks and restaurateurs, who, so legend says...