Word: philomenas
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Relaxed in the back seat of his black limousine, Richard Cardinal Gushing, Roman Catholic archbishop of Boston, riffled through the newspaper as the car rolled through the Massachusetts countryside. He was on his way to dedicate the first Catholic church in the town of Dover-red brick St. Philomena's, which Pastor Joseph J. Boyle and the members of his three-year-old parish had just completed. Suddenly a news item riveted Cardinal Cushing's attention: the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites had stricken St. Philomena, "the virgin martyr," from the roster of saints...
...Royal Porthcawl course in Wales. Canadian Golfer Marlene Stewart, 19, shot a blazing 72 in the first 18 holes of the British null Amateur championship final, went on to trounce Eire's Philomena Garvey, 7 and 6, for the title...
...Cuthbert de Hoghton, 63, holder of the second oldest baronetcy in England (created in 1611), married in Lancashire his dark, rosy-cheeked secretary, Philomena Simmons, 19, who had come to help him with his mail after his first wife died in October. The bride was given away by her brother, a coal company clerk. Said stout Sir Cuthbert: "I have always been proud that I am a true Tory democrat...
...read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse: a First-Century martyr named St. Philomena...
...near the garden hedge, and a horrid stinking mess in a corner of the garden. Georges Sarret had prepared carefully for his chosen profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian sisters Philomena and Catherine Schmidt who had been unofficially accused as German agents during the War. Methodical M. Sarret found the Schmidt sisters elderly, invalid husbands and insured them. The husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over...