Word: novena
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...
...small cults and sects on the other pay more attention to healing, says Zelley, than the so-called "major denominations"-Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, etc. "[Suppose] a Methodist woman is taken with a severe case of neuritis. Her Roman Catholic friend will light a candle and make a novena for her healing. Her Christian Science friend will send her literature telling her how to remove the consciousness of pain. Her cultist friend will give her an 'anointed cloth' to be laid on the afflicted part. Perhaps after a while, her pastor . . . comes to visit. The conversation is light...
Through her years of darkness, Mrs. Cerra had never lost faith or hope. She prayed continually, made novena after novena. Now, though doctors have hinted that she may not keep her sight, she refuses to worry. She is having too good a time studying faces, fashions and colors. "During the dark days," she says, "I couldn't imagine what lavender looked like. Now I can see it, but, you know, I've got so I don't like...