Word: martyres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Funnywriter Ring. In Manhattan, portly Leftpundit Heywood Broun announced that Ring Lardner was the only genius he ever met, rejoiced that the wounding of Son James, who writes, may force him to return to the U. S., thus providing the cause of Leftist Spain with another martyr...
...Another U. S. candidate is an Indian girl named Catherine Tekakwitha (1656-1680), for whose beatification proceedings were begun by the Bishop of Albany in 1931. Steps toward canonization include examination of the candi date's writings, collection of evidence on martyr dom or heroic practice of the theological virtues - faith, hope and charity - and the four great moral virtues - prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. Evidence of two miracles worked before beatification and two afterward is required for canonization...
...that Divine Providence has appointed Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist ideology to save our nation from the grim chaos of Bolshevism. Instead of bowing humbly to God's will, he was continually talking about persecution and martyrdom. I know that Bishop Sproll covets the halo of a martyr. This halo will not be denied him." Bishop Sproll kept...
...prelate who covets no martyr's halo is Theodor Cardinal Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna, who advised Austrians to vote ja in the plebiscite, was supposedly rebuked by the Vatican, and voted ja himself with a Nazi salute (TIME, April 18). Last week the Christian Century, able U. S. nondenominational weekly, published an article by Martin Schroeder, Lutheran student of German church affairs, which offered a novel but specious explanation of Cardinal Innitzer's actions. It is simply that ''Cardinal Innitzer has made a strong bid to head a national German episcopate," a church accountable only...
After that, there were no performances at all. Restrained by court order from moving on to Baltimore, the show folded for good in Washington, a martyr to McCoy's belief that the Buffalo Bill tradition still has life...