Word: marye
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last fortnight the U. S. Cowley Fathers got a new black-cassocked, shovel-hatted leader. Rev. Spence Burton, Superior General of the Society since 1924, had resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical...
Low-church Anglicans call high churchmen "spikes" (for their sharp, uncompromising churchmanship). Under the "merry monks"-as the low-church Episcopal Chronicle called them-St. Mary's became one of the great spike churches of the U. S. It used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps...
Annually St. Mary's was pontifically visited by a Canadian high churchman, Bishop Rocksborough R. Smith of Algoma, Ont., who wore red slippers and episcopal gloves, presided at long and ceremonious services worked up from Fortescue.* A story became current in the Episcopal Church: that New York's...
Rumor in Manhattan last week was that, along with Father Williams, the other Cowley Fathers would leave St. Mary the Virgin, presumably taking the vimpa with them. In Boston next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this...
William K. Howard (Fire Over England). Director Howard (on a profit-sharing basis) wrote the original story, produced and directed Back Door to Heaven, laid it in his home town of St. Mary's, Ohio, at the last moment smeared himself with grease and enacted the part of the...