Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later, according to an account given by American priests, the Pope said to Mindszenty: "You may be the first to see these blood red colors turn to red blood...
...John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, was named a cardinal in May 1535, after Henry VIII had imprisoned him. Henry prohibited delivery of the red hat to England, declaring that instead he would send Fisher's head to Rome for the hat. Shortly thereafter, Fisher was beheaded...
...May 8, 1945-V-E day! On that day I delivered from this pulpit a prayer of thanksgiving for the victory of the hour, begging peace with justice . . . The peace that came was not God's peace; and because in the ensuing postwar years men's hearts have not been won back to God, I must this day-as a protest against the crucifixion of humanity-entreat your prayers for persecuted, tortured, victimized Cardinal Mindszenty...
...physical Cardinal Mindszenty can no longer be saved. It is the spiritual Cardinal Mindszenty in his martyrdom of mind and body that we can fortify by our prayers, that in his soul he may know that in another part of the world other men are holding high God's torch of justice . . . And in our own dear land each free man ... must protect and fight to keep his own integrity of conscience, his own God-given freedoms ... to save America and the rest of the democratic, God-loving world from trickery, torturings, disasters and defeat...
That, thought a Tory housewife in Southwark, was as may be. This particular picture was a long way from proving it. She took another look, then bustled over to the cupboard. There, sure enough, was the selfsame picture, neatly pasted in an old scrapbook. She had clipped it from the Daily Express, dated June 10, 1936, when Stanley Baldwin and his Tories were in charge. Its caption read, "Exclusive picture of Prince Edward,* baby son of the Duke and Duchess of Kent...