Word: patriarchal
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About 2,000 B.C., Abraham ("father of multitudes") was the Patriarch of the Hebrews ("those from the other side"?they came from Ur in Baby- lonia). Abraham had two sons: Ishmael by Hagar (ancestor of the Ismaelites or Arabians), Isaac by Sarah ("princess"). Isaac married Rebekah and they begat Jacob called Israel, the ancestor of the Jews. His male progeny became the heads of the twelve tribes of Israel...
...short-lived troubles produced a bit of a hero, Joaquín Pérez, styled "Patriarch...
...Mexico. He fixed his eyes on a church edifice in Mexico City, La Soledad. With the permission of the Government,* according to some reports−without, according to others−the Knights forcibly entered this church, forcibly ejected the Roman Catholic pastor, Father Silva, proclaimed Joaquín Patriarch...
...first Sunday in Lent, mass was celebrated before great crowds. At the church steps, Patriarch Joaquín shook thousands of Mexicans by the hand, gave the needy alms, told all to "go home and tell your friends you now belong to the Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of Mexico." Some did. There was fighting for churches in Chilpancingo, Orizaba, Vera Cruz, Morelia, Tabasco. In some places, Government troops defended the Roman Catholics in the possession of their churches; in others, good Catholic (Roman) laymen came stoutly to the defense...
Explaining the recent expulsion of the Greek patriarch from Turkey, M. Moukbil said that the patriarch was used by the Greeks not only as a spy but also as an active agent. M. Moukbil stated that, contrary to the common supposition, this patriarch was not a Turkish subject, saying that he was born in Greece and that he did not come into Turkey until after fifteen years...