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Word: patrocinio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...rash assumption that law and the police are enough to check silent storms, well-founded discontent and rampant social injustice." Next door in Portugal, a bishop raised the same warning cry last week. In a pastoral letter published in Lisbon's Roman Catholic daily, Novidados, Bishop Jose do Patrocinio Dias of Beja called upon both government and private charity to come to the aid of the poverty-stricken rural workers whose numbers were "not decreasing but growing daily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Silent Storms | 2/8/1954 | See Source »

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