Word: nuptial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Delia Mackin, Baltimore graduate nurse, niece of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; and Michael J. Robinson, of Manhattan, onetime officer in the Irish Free State army; in Baltimore. The Archbishop, who, like the bride, was born in extreme poverty on Golden Island, Athlone. Ireland, officiated at the high nuptial mass in Baltimore Cathedral...
Birth Control. Especially did His Holiness inveigh against birth control: "The Catholic Church, to whom God has entrusted the defense of the integrity and purity of morals, standing erect in the midst of the moral ruin which surrounds her, in order that she may preserve the chastity of the nuptial union from being denied by this foul stain, raises her voice in token of Divine ambassadorship and through our mouth proclaims anew...
...ceremony," said he to assembled correspondents, "will have the complete character of a wedding according to Orthodox rites. The character of the rites will be unmistakably apparent in the exchange of nuptial crowns by the King and Queen and in the partaking of the blessed wine from a special cup. These constitute essential acts of the Orthodox marriage service...
...Suspected Slipper concerns the return of a warrior to his wife after years in battle. All goes well until the couple retire, when the warlord discovers a strange slipper in the nuptial chamber. The wife coquettishly pretends that she has transgressed, that another has been buying her rice, occupying her bed. As she describes him, her raging husband perceives that the description fits one whom he has seen killed that very day. Then the tragic truth is made manifest-that the slipper belongs to the couple's own son, grown to manhood while his father was away...