Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jesus' Sibs...
Referring to the argument that restricted families might prevent the birth of great men (viz. Benjamin Franklin, 10th son of his father, eighth child of his mother), Mrs. Sanger popped out: "I call your attention to the fact that the great leader of Christianity, Jesus Christ, was said to be an only child." Her unlearned remark** immediately raised hubbub...
Confirmed. Ralph ("Sonny") Capone, 10, son of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; in the Holy Name of Jesus Church; in Miami...
Christianity gave a new world-impetus to religious healing. Jesus cured. The Apostles cured. After the 3rd Century faith in miracles changed to confidence in sacred relics, a confidence which persists at Roman Catholic shrines, such as Lourdes and Canada's St. Anne de Beaupre. Then the Reformation revived faith healing. Luther performed some cures through faith. The Moravians and Waldenses anointed with oil. Baptists, Quakers and Methodists produced "strokers.'' The Temple at Zion. Ill. contains a stupendous number of crutches and other physical aids discarded by cured believers...
...Agnus is Latin for lamb, a beast revered because St. John called Jesus the "Lamb of God.'' Agues the name (Inez is the same name) derives from Greek (h)agne, which means chaste...