Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monsignor de Ferrari, a Salesian Father, died last August in Caracas. Last week news of his death reached the U.S., and with it as strange a tale as was ever told of jungles, of holy travels, and of unholy terror in the Venezuelan wilds...
...many quests for souls in the jungles of southern Venezuela, Monsignor de Ferrari paused one day beneath a giant cedar tree. Looking up into the branches, he saw two marvelous beings. Enticed down, they turned out to be children of not more than twelve or thirteen...
They were unusual children: their arms reached to their ankles, their heads were in the shape of pears. Their savage mouths gave even the good Monsignor pause. In their hands, as weapons, they carried sharp, long thorns of the támara tree. They spoke no recognizable language. But they could speak in pantomime, and De Ferrari could understand them...
...Died. Monsignor John Augustine Ryan, 76, author (Distributive Justice), a crusader for minimum wages, child-labor laws, collective bargaining; from a cerebral hemorrhage; in St. Paul. A devoted follower of Franklin Roosevelt (even on the Supreme Court packing scheme), he had declared the demand of World War II veterans for jobs impossible to satisfy in "an economy dominated by the philosophy of 'free enterprise...
When Our Lady of Lebanon moved into the old Congregationalist Church of the Pilgrims last December, its priest, Monsignor Mansour Stephen, planned extensive interior redecoration. Hearing that the fire-gutted Normandie's salvaged appurtenances were to be auctioned, he looked them over, decided that they were just the thing for his new church. Last week, with the backing of his parish, Monsignor Stephen turned up at the auction to bid against 100-odd hotel men, restaurateurs, other buyers. In addition to the bronze doors ($1,025), he acquired ten bronze plaques ($975), a bronze railing ($155), a cloisonn...