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...Whose Martyr? As always, Castro had his own explanation. The regime said that the crowd outside the church was really composed of pro-Castro Cubans, incensed at the "fascist priests" and "hooligans" holed up inside with weapons. One priest had fired into the crowd outside, according to the official explanation, killing 17-year-old Arnaldo Socorro. Claiming Socorro as a martyr, the government trucked some 50,000 workers to his funeral. What the Communists did not explain was that Socorro was a militant member of Cuba's Young Catholic Workers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cuba: Castro v. the Virgin | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

Last week South Korea's press, which serves a nation of 24.5 million people, readily conceded the point to Pak. "He was asking for a martyr's courage," said Editor Pu Wan Hyuk of the Chosun Ilbo. "We cannot expect reporters to be revolutionaries." Asked a reporter: "How can you tell the precise dividing line between constructive criticism and anti-revolutionary slander? It's better to stay on the safe side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Korea's Mute Press | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

...been PAX TECUM FILUMENA. The presence of a glass phial containing the remains of what was assumed to have been blood, together with certain symbols (two anchors, three arrows, a palm and a flower or torch), was interpreted by archaeologists as proof that the remains were those of a martyr. Her tender age led to the assumption that she was a virgin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Desanctification of a Saint | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration and established her feast day (Aug. 11), and in 1855 Pope Pius IX approved a Mass and office for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Desanctification of a Saint | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

...Philomena through the years, there is some comfort in the closing words on the "saint" in the current edition (1956) of Butler's Lives of the Saints: "We do not know certainly whether she was in fact named Philomena in her earthly life, whether she was a martyr, whether her relics now rest at Mugnano or in some place unknown. And these questions are only of relative importance: the spiritual influence of her whom we call St. Philomena is what really matters; . . . in the words of our Lord: 'Is not the life more than the meat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Desanctification of a Saint | 4/28/1961 | See Source »

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