Word: pinsk
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...remarkably well-preserved mummy, this relic has traveled much since Bobola, a Jesuit teacher of noble Polish birth, was scourged, beaten, flayed and scalped by Cossacks, who put him to death near Pinsk in 1657. The nearby shrine in which he was buried was successively guarded by Jesuits, Greek Catholics and Russian Orthodox monks before Bobola's relics were taken to Polotsk. In Bolshevik hands they ended up in a medical museum in Moscow-although Roman Catholics were not then aware of their whereabouts. In 1922, within a month after he became Pope, Pius XI ordered...
Chronologically, the 86 pictures exhibited last week ranged from a portrait of a Russian nobleman by Borovikovsky (1757-1825) to Pinsk-born Nicolai Cikovsky's Landscape...