Word: patriarchate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...village cobbler, young "Beppo" Sarto was as bright as he was poor, but he never lost his humility. Even when he was a fledgling country priest, his powerful sermons attracted attention beyond his own parish. He was raised to be a monsignor, then Bishop of Mantua, in 1893 Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He made a point of giving away everything that he had. In his will he wrote: "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor...
...Ritz, filled his suite there with treasures. Victorious Franco liked Royalist Lazaro no better than had the Republicans, used his Madrid house as a police headquarters. Lazaro spent World War II in Manhattan. Art dealers got to know the trim little man with the beard of a Biblical patriarch. He was still voraciously snapping up old masters...
...Rome to be elected Pope. Having given away all his money to the poor of Venice, he applied to the Catholic banks for a travel loan, but was turned down as a poor risk. Finally a Jewish admirer lent him the money for the journey, but Cardinal-Patriarch Sarto was so certain he would not be elected Pope that he bought a round-trip ticket. When he died he wrote in his will: "I was born poor. I lived poor most of my life. I wish to die poor...
Died. Metropolitan Theophilus (Fedor Pashkovsky), 76, Russian-born primate of the Russian Orthodox Greek Catholic Church of North America; in San Francisco. Admitting his church's spiritual dependence on the patriarchate of Moscow, he firmly denied Patriarch Alexei's claims to administrative control...