Word: missal
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Morgan. Arrayed with scholarship and point in the quiet rooms of the Morgan Library were illuminated manuscripts, art objects and drawings from the 9th to the 17th Century, portraying the Passion, Resurrection and Ascension of Christ. Choice items: a recently acquired 14th-century missal illuminated by the great Niccolo da Bologna; a gold and enamel 12th-Century altar; Raphael's original drawing of the Agony in the Garden for a famed altarpiece owned by the Metropolitan Museum...
...Excelentisima Maria Antonia Field, descendant of California grandees who was given her title in 1931 by King Alfonso XIII for her work in preserving Spanish California's historical buildings and records. Fray Junipero's cell, restored to look as it did when he prayed, read his missal and scourged himself with a chain therein, was dedicated as a shrine. A handful of Indians, descendants of those whom, Fray Junipero confirmed, were present. And there was a fiesta for the hundreds of Spanish-American Catholics of Monterey peninsula, with plenty of music and dancing...
...duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang was a Christian on earth is the simple story of a precociously virtuous soul, a saint seen in small, sharp detail through a minifying glass. She never looked at her Missal because "books are a distraction to me. ... I have so many things to tell Him." At 12 she was impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering death from tuberculosis was a summing up of all she knew and much that she felt only intuitively...
...proposed liberalization of divorce and marriage laws was already plaguing the Church (TIME, May 4, Sept. 14). Birth Control was once more raising its ugly head. The new "American Missal" (mass-book to be used with the prayerbook) was regarded by many as much too High-Church. On these questions the Catholic and Protestant wings of the Church were lined up, more sharply demarcated than they had been in 50 years. Also, the reelection of Bishop James De Wolf Perry of Rhode Island as presiding bishop, regarded not long ago as a fait accompli, was suddenly threatened by a faction...
...gentlemen supported the trailing bridal veil of antique Brussels lace, priceless and some 20 feet long. Instead of a wreath, Princess Isabelle wore a bridal circlet of diamonds. Carrying a missal instead of a bouquet, and leaning on the arm of her father Prince Pierre, she led the royal procession in which walked 54 princes and princesses...