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Sunday at half past two the bells rang out. Pious Neapolitans, flocking to learn the cause, were elated to hear that the miracle of the liquefaction had finally taken place, 22 hours after the first prayer...
...Pious Paradox. Author Gayn devotes most of the latter part of Journey from the East to the new China and its new leaders. He believes that Chiang is the only man under whom China can achieve unity...
Until 1926, Chiang, was a revolutionary. Thereafter he fought the Communists as vigorously as he fought the Japs. A pious advocate of Confucian virtues, Warlord Chiang was also responsible, Gayn claims, for ten years of military bloodshed. Today, Author Gayn believes, Chiang is at once "a ruthless and intolerant man ... a pious Christian ... a canny politician ... a national unifier of the caliber of Bismarck and a petty and jealous political boss . . . consumed by a passion for power...
...priest for 60 years, a bishop for 43, a cardinal for 33, the prelate's life was a series of successive honors conferred by his Church. Born in Lowell, the eleventh and youngest child of poor and pious Irish parents, young O'Connell began his career in a textile mill. But after one hour's work he heard God's voice: "Child, this is not thy place." His place, he decided, was in the Church...
...Marshall Islanders, who are pious Christians (dominant variety: Boston Congregationalists), broke into cheers, struck up a Christian hymn in the soft-flowing native dialect...