Word: novenae
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...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...Anoint yourself with oil and apply the medal of St. Joseph. Make a novena to St. Joseph and persevere in prayers...
Mary Moore's manner is consistently naive. When she had her audition with Manager Giulio Gatti-Casazza last spring, she was so excited that she sang with a cough drop in her mouth. Then she made a novena to Saint Gabriel and Saint Paul. ("But I haven't said much about that because I don't want people to think I go to church just because I want things.'') She practices in a studio because at home she is afraid of annoying the neighbors. When she makes an exception she closes all the windows, stuffs...
...last week prayed thousands upon thousands of men, women & children throughout the Christian world, beginning a novena to St. Anne, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus, whose day is July 26. U. S. worshippers flocked to Manhattan, to St. Anne's, her national shrine, or to St. Jean de Baptiste, where a fragment of her wristbone is credited with many a miracle of healing. Other U. S. pilgrims traveled to Quebec where they joined Canadians in kneeling at famed St. Anne de Beaupr...
...entire Anglo-Catholic wing of the Episcopal Church-some 2,000 clergymen -converged last week upon Philadelphia for a Catholic Congress to celebrate the "Catholic Revival" whose centenary fell last July (TIME, July 17). Throughout the land the pious had wished the Congress well with a novena (nine days of prayer) for "the revival of religion in America...