Word: lisieux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...royal blue swimming trunks, the Rev. Robert Simon climbed the 115-ft. diving tower. This time, as he looked down at the shimmering river and the upturned faces of the crowd, he was not frightened. He prayed to St. Teresa of Lisieux with a calm heart. This, he hoped, would be his most lucrative dive...
...confused with France's St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97) or Portugal's 13th Century St. Teresa, daughter of King Sancho...
...shattered Normandy town of Lisieux last week, kindly Father Louis Augros was hard at work in an ugly brick seminary, training the 150 new candidates for the Mission de France and Mission de Paris. "The purpose of the training," said Superior Augros, "is, first, to return to the original Christian message, second, to integrate Christian truth with the preoccupations and intellectual scheme of the modern world...
Madame Lulu & God. Back at Lisieux for a refresher course while waiting reassignment is shock-haired, dark-eyed Father Georges Baudry, 31, who has spent the last four years working in the Communist-ridden Normandy parish of Saint Andre. He is not at all discouraged by the fact that in one village of 100 inhabitants he was able to increase the number of regular churchgoers only from one to three. Much more important, he thinks, is that through him the greater part of the village has lost its hostility to the church and is increasingly dubious of Communist propaganda...