Word: mitering
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...have certain inequalities in status in the church ... let us make certain that the more status a member or minister has the more simple be his dress and attitude ... A simple cassock is generally a better Christian garb for the highest member of the clergy than cape and miter." (Blake himself wears a stiff clerical collar, which is permissible but unusual for Presbyterian ministers, and a cassock...
...grandfather was a cannibal," said the brand-new Anglican bishop to a reporter last week. "I remember his giving me a tip-the palms of a man's hands make the best eating." The Right Rev. George Ambo, 37, had a miter placed on his head in St. John's Cathedral of Brisbane, Australia, and became the first South Pacific native to be made a bishop. Twelve bishops assisted Brisbane's Archbishop Reginald Halse at the consecration before a congregation of 2,000, including Bishop Ambo's tribally tattooed wife, Marcella, 31, and their 13-year...
Decked in the miter and cope presented to him by Japan's Anglicans in 1948. in which he had crowned Elizabeth II, the Archbishop presided over Communion for 4,000 delegates, ancl, gave them a sermon. Said the Archbishop, reminding Japan-and the world-of the last war: "None of us dares forget the years of war. so full of evil and hateful memories.'' When the service was over, everyone got an obento -a box lunch of fish cakes, eggs, white rice and sesame seeds...
...Tiber's banks: "Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa! Viva il Papa!" His Holiness John XXIII, Bishop of Rome, 262nd Supreme Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church, paused at the entrance to the Basilica of St. Peter, a square, strong rock of a man beneath the jeweled miter and glistening white robes...
Tied to a stake, wearing the paper miter of heresy, Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was burned to death in the year 1314. But before he died, his stentorian voice cried out a terrible curse against his enemies: Pope Clement V. his prosecutor, Guillaume de Nogaret, and the coldly handsome King Philip IV of France. Historians still argue over the guilt or innocence of the Templars,*but most agree that they had to be swept away before Philip's kingdom could become a nation of Frenchmen instead of warring congeries of Burgundians, Gascons, Provengals, Normans...