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...born a long time ago-nearly Two Thousand years ago-at a place called Bethlehem. His father and mother lived in a City called Nazareth, but they were forced, by business to travel to Bethlehem. His father's name was Joseph, and his mother's name was Mary...
...last May; in San Francisco, Calif. A famed playwright and librettist at the turn of the Century, he was eleven times (1891-98, 1902-05) Shepherd of New York's Lambs Club, was the oldest member of San Francisco's famed Bohemian Club. His passion play Nazareth was the first produced in the U. S. (1901), is revived every third year at Santa Clara, Calif. Died. Rev. Dr. Charles Henry Parkhurst, 91, famed oldtime foe of Tammany, of injuries suffered when he, a somnambulist, fell from the porch roof of his home in Ventnor...
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...When in 1920 Pope Benedict XV looked about for a patron saint for airmen, he had not far to seek. At Loreto, overlooking the Adriatic, stood a Holy House which, by legend, was the onetime residence of the Virgin Mary in Nazareth. When in 1263 the Turks threatened it with destruction, a squadron of angels is supposed to have picked up Mary's house and flown it to a place near Fiume, thence to Loreto. By the Pope's decree the Blessed Virgin Mary of Loreto became "special patron with God of all things aeronautic...
...Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, was not a Fellow of Oxford nor did he have the benefit of our five Jesuit schools. Yet his ideas had a little something in them...