Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There was a mean trick played on us somewhere. God put us in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people." says Patriarch Ty Ty, in a kind of final apology for the outrageous behavior of his children. Old Ty Ty was a Georgia cracker whose dusty little farm lay fallow while he and all his family dug in it for gold. Sometimes their faith wavered, but never Ty Ty's. Fifteen years he had been digging. When he heard that an albino was supposed to be a good divining-rod he went and roped...
...More than 1,000,000 Jugoslav emigrants in America are suffering on account of the Depression," said their Bishop Mardary in Belgrade last week to His Holiness Varnava Patriarch of the Serbian Orthodox Church...
Straightway Patriarch Varnava commanded all Orthodox Jugoslavs, in Jugoslavia to pray on the following Sunday "for the return of prosperity to the United States...
Officiating in Belgrade Cathedral, Bishop Mardary voiced his joy at the Patriarch's prompt action, declared: "Jugoslavs firmly believe that the United States is destined to play a high, historic rÔle in consolidating the disrupted relations of mankind...
...Present patriarch of the Mayos is Dr. William James, 71, senior A. M. A. past president (1906). His two daughters are married to professors of surgery...