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John Frederick Matthiesen (Cyprian is his patron saint) is an ascetic-looking, 29-year-old Eastern Orthodox missionary who was raised a Missouri Lutheran. For four years he has been working full-time in the punch-press department at Stewart-Warner (artillery fuses), at $30 a week. Purpose: 1) to support himself, his mother and brother; 2) to earn money to build a church...
...Dominator. Marta Skavronsky entered the "tavern brawl" of Peter's Moscow "as she would have gone into a new kitchen.... History felt her broom." She was illiterate, clean and piously Lutheran. Purchased for a ruble (approximately 50?) from the Russian corporal who first claimed her as a prisoner, the sturdy Lithuanian entered the household of Marshal Sheremetiev without fuss or fume. She obediently went to bed with him and next day set about tidying his house...
Bishop Eivind Berggrav, Primate of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church, who talked back to Himmler and refused to become a clerical quisling, recalled his 1941 anti-Nazi stand and the five years' imprisonment it cost him: "Don't say it was just myself. I was merely the exponent for what God called me to do. ... I didn't know until these past five years that God could be such a daily reality in my life...
...spectacles and a false black beard. Quietly he slipped past the guards of his isolated cottage "prison" and made his way to Oslo, twelve miles away. There, night after night, within a stone's throw of Gestapo headquarters, he presided at secret meetings of the Norwegian State Lutheran Church...
Last week Mount Olivet, now the second biggest church in the Augustana Lutheran Synod, celebrated its 25th anniversary. The congregation had already outgrown its new $50,000 church. Pastor Youngdahl was holding three identical services every Sunday, each overflowing the 465 seats and jamming the church to the doors. To meet the rush, he planned to split $400,000 between a new postwar church building and a Sunday school, youth center and gymnasium...