Word: neri
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning this week (351 years ago), a slight old man with skin like alabaster and a beard like carded wool sat on his bed, raised his blue eyes to heaven and died. Cardinals had sought his blessing, popes had humored his whims and solicited his advice. Yet Philip Neri was neither a mighty prince of the church nor a hair-shirt hermit of the desert. He was a saint...
...Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
...Philip Neri was a saint after Italy's heart. When his canonization was announced at the same time as that of Ignatius Loyola, Francis Xavier, Isidore the Farmer, and Teresa of Avila, the Spanish-hating gagsters of Rome wisecracked that the Pope had just canonized "four Spaniards and a saint...
...arrival of General José Mijares Palencia and Eduardo Neri in San Antonio touched off rumors that a revolutionary council was actually being organized. Big-hipped, soft-spoken Pepe Palencia beat the Almazán drums for the election this summer. Less in the spotlight, more powerful from the background was chunky, balding Neri, head of Almazán's PRUN (Revolutionary Party of National Unification). If a junta was being formed, he was the man to form...