Word: jerusalem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Arab army, in the name of King Hussein of the Hejaz and Arabia, a few hours before Field Marshal Allenby's columns arrived to make the victory secure. It was Colonel Lawrence whom Marshal Allenby had fetched by airplane that the Colonel and the Field Marshal might enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven by his eccentric soul to retire from the Near East, seek solitude at Oxford, and finally assume, incognito, the rank and style of "Private Ross...
Seven centuries ago there was a generation of children who, having observed their elders' repeated failure to wrest the Holy Sepulchre from the infidel Saracens by brute force, resorted to the quaint expedient of trudging down across Europe, struggling over the Mediterranean Sea and advancing upon Jerusalem with hands empty of weapons and hearts full of faith. It is not recorded that the Saracen militia were deeply affected by this display, nor that they yielded their stronghold until, some time afterwards, Frederick II ousted them by adroit diplomacy. Nevertheless, the tradition that young people make good auxiliary forces...
...water was from the River Jordan. The gold font had been conveyed from Windsor Castle. The royal organist and choir boys donned their crimson and gold robes at St. James's Palace before hastening over. The Most Reverend Cosmo Gordon Lang, Prelate of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Primate of England, Archbishop of York, stood with uplifted finger. The scene was the private chapel of Buckingham Palace, Present were the King, the Queen, Edward of Wales, Princess Mary, the Duke and Duchess of York, many another and an unchristened babe...
...next year at Avignon, France. In 1888 the VI Eucharistic Congress met at Paris and centred its pomp and circumstance about the Church of the Sacred Heart,* whence one overlooks all of grey Paris and beyond towards Chartres. Many a great city has seen these congresses ? Antwerp, Jerusalem (where was stimulated co-operation between the Eastern and Western churches), Rheims (where church deliberations concerned social questions affecting the working classes), Paray-le-Monial (the city of the Sacred Heart), Brussels, Lourdes (the city of Eucharistic miracles), Angouleme (where French law was invoked to block the now regular procession...
...clock will be as follows: Overture la, "Mignon" Thomas Rachem Mana-Zueea, (Arranged by Agide Jacchia) Fantasia, "Fedora" Giordano Songs with piano by Isa Kremer Eili, Eili Arranged by Jacchia Minuet Bolzoni Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky Songs with piano by Isa Kremer Suite from "Shulamith" Goldfaden a. March to Jerusalem b. The Blessing c. Raisins and Almonds d. Finale: In Beth Hamikdosh Intermezzo from "Cavalleria Rusticana" Mascagni Ballet from "The Demon" Rubinetein