Word: monsignor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monsignor Egon Turcsanyi, 65-year-old secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, and 15 priests between the ages of 20 and 28. Turcsanyi, so ill he could not attend some of the sessions, was accused of plotting a fascist "counterrevolution" against the Red regime and stealing documents from the State Office for Church Affairs. According to the regime six of the priests "repented" their "crime": distributing leaflets and a message from Pope Pius XII, which stated "the people of Hungary live in misery...
...clock one morning last week a jostling crowd-tourists, sailors and townspeople, elbow to elbow with priests and nuns-had swarmed into the 13th century Cathedral of San Gennaro in Naples. Promptly on the hour, a mustached monsignor walked slowly to a side altar, carrying a glass-windowed silver reliquary containing two glass vials partly filled with a dark, solid, opaque substance. As the priest turned the reliquary around and around before the golden-faced bust of St. Januarius, Naples' patron saint, onlookers prayed: "Come and grant us your favor, 0 beautiful saint, great champion of Jesus Christ...
Your Sept. 2 obituary on Monsignor Ronald Knox was heartwarming. He was a truly great...
Agreed that "all identity discs in heaven are marked RC," but with all respect to the late Monsignor Knox, his Protestant brethren think it means Redeemed Christian. The Jew wears his happily as one of the Returned Chosen, while the Buddhist feels he has Realized Contentment. For the Hindu it simply indicates he is a Reincarnation Candidate until he has Reached Completion...
...Died. Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 69, English Roman Catholic convert and scholar; of cancer; in Somerset, England (see RELIGION...