Word: prays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oradour-sur-Glane was a French farm town the Nazi SS troops destroyed. They shot the men, placed a time bomb in the center of the church, locked some 800 women and children in the church to pray and wait for death. Only eight survived...
...Gods of Heaven and Earth, Do, I pray Ye, let our Imperial Family Enjoy everlasting glory And eternal prosperity...
...School. Sister Bergman's school is a firetrap. Rich old Mr. Bogardus (Henry Travers) is putting up an office building next door and wants to have St. Mary's condemned so that he can use the property for a parking lot. But Sister Bergman and her nuns pray night & day that mean old Mr. Bogardus will see the light and give up his fine new chromium and steel office building to the school. Father Bing is frankly skeptical of the nuns' childlike faith-until a Hollywood miracle proves him wrong...
...these
highlights: ^ "We have what may be mankind's last chance. With the
development of atomic power . . . the prevention of war is now the
issue which transcends all other social and political issues." pray God to renew a right spirit within us."
...evening he sat watching a bonfire rise & fall with the winds that blew across the city. He stood up and walked to a hill at the edge of the lot. And there he saw-he was sure he did-the Virgin Mary. She told him to pray. She promised to return on 16 nights, and then to make a well spout from the hill-just like the miraculous spring in The Song of Bernadette, which had played at the neighborhood theater...