Word: januarius
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...character of the Church, today filled with new zeal. Thus one of the members of Cardinal Dougherty's official entourage was Joseph Lo Pa Hong, rich Chinese Catholic charitarian of Shanghai, and a Solemn High Mass on the Luneta which drew 40,000 women was celebrated by Bishop Januarius Hayasaki of Nagasaki, Japan. Altogether there went to Manila a score of Oriental prelates as well as a dozen U. S. bishops and archbishops...
Exuberant in all things, the people of Naples reserve their most pious transports for their patron San Gennaro (St. Januarius), Bishop of Beneventum who was martyred about 305 A. D. In the treasure chapel of Naples Cathedral are a silver bust believed to contain San Gennaro's head, a reliquary holding two vials of what is supposed to be his blood. Last week brought the feast of San Gennaro. Into the Cathedral thronged clergy, civil officials and masses of Neapolitans. On the altar stood the silver bust. Bearing aloft the reliquary an officiant brought it within San Gennaro...
...miraculous liquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius usually occurs 18 times a year. Sometimes the solid mass in the vial changes to a red fluid in two minutes. Never does it take longer than an hour. The success of last week's exposition led Neapolitans to interpret it as a good omen for the birth of the daughter born to the Crown Prince and Princess of Italy...
...great and good man, a bishop and a martyr, St. Januarius is not the Patron Saint of Earthquakes, but of Naples. Tortured and beheaded by the Emperor Diocletian, his skull and two phials containing his blood (see cut) are among the most sacred relics of Naples Cathedral. Eighteen times a year the phials of blood miraculously liquefy. The skull has a reputation for stopping eruptions of Mt. Vesuvius. While the faithful prayed in the square last week, dour Cardinal Ascalesi, splendid in scarlet soutane and sash, held high the gold-encased skull, blessed 20,000 worshippers...
Disagreeing radically with the seismologists, Naples' dour Cardinal Ascalesi, guardian of St. Januarius' skull, insisted that the real cause of the earthquake was the indecent dresses of Neapolitan women...