Word: noster
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used by Catholics today, a Rosary is a string of beads to which is attached a crucifix. The size and number of the beads remind the faithful, in fingering them, to repeat prayers in "decades" or groups of ten Ave Marias (Hail Marys) preceded by a Pater Noster (Lord's Prayer) and followed by a Gloria, while meditating on the mysteries of Christ's life, death and resurrection. Usually a Catholic says five decades, or a total of some 60 brief prayers, at a time, but the true Rosary consists of 15 decades...
...parade through Cleveland streets, lively with Eucharistic shields and yellow-&-white Papal colors, to the ugly red brick St. John's Cathedral. In the vestibule Bishop Schrembs censed the Cardinal Legate, presented him with a crucifix and aspersorium. A choir sang: Ecce Sacerdos Magnus ("Behold the great priest"). Protector noster aspice Deus ("Oh God, Our Protector, look upon us"), chanted the Bishop, while the Cardinal knelt at a faldstool. His brief liturgical reception over, Patrick Cardinal Hayes had nothing official to do until that evening when, in the Public Auditorium, he was publicly welcomed to Cleveland by Mayor Davis, Governor...
...opening of every Commencement. Besides Smith, the orator today addressed "praeses et socii," (President and Fellows); "decani" (deans); "professores, praeceptores, tutoresque" (professors, instructors, and tutors); "gubernator praeclare" (Governor Ely); alumni; "patres matresque"; puellae formosissimae" (most comely maidens); "legati Angliae Galliaeque" (the English and French ambassadors); and finally "praeses noster" (President Lowell again...