Word: patrie
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Memorial Church, dedicated to Protestantism, represents only a small fraction of Protestant religious thought. Its Unitarian-style service lacks many traditional sections, such as the General Confessional or the Gloria Patri. Its high-quality intellectual sermons are often not designed to inspire irrational faith, but to direct rational inquiry...
...movingly sung by Gianna Pederzini) reveals on her deathbed to the sorrowing nuns her fear that God has abandoned her. Aided by La Scala's magnificent sets, the opera builds from that point to a dramatic third-act climax in which Blanche's calm recitation of Deo Patri Sit Gloria is counterpoised against the offstage thuds of the guillotine and the screams of the hysterical mob. The reaction of first-night critics was divided. Some were charmed by the opera's lyricism and moved by its emotional power; others found its music imitative or thought they detected...
...objective instead of being in our senses) and with history. Back in the Anglican fold, he holds that the Bishop of Rome became pre-eminent in the church only because the Mohammedans "over whelmed the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem, isolated him of Constantinople, and left only the Patri arch of Rome in his former authority...
Giuseppe Sarto became Bishop of Mantua, then Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He was still poor, still giving away his few belongings and launching quixotic business ventures to help his flock. To one visitor he complained that a gold watch he had been given was engraved with the patri archal arms and therefore could not be pawned. When Pope Leo XIII died in 1903 and Cardinal Sarto had to go to Rome for the conclave, he did not have enough money for the railroad fare and the Catholic bank in Venice refused to lend it to him. He got his loan...
...Stinks." Jules responded to Patri's treatment. At 14 he won an oratorical contest. Saving his fists for juveriile boxing tournaments, he began studying dramatics. Within a few years, he was playing minor roles in the Group Theater's Broadway hits written by Clifford Odets -Waiting for Lefty, Golden...