Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the first Japanese vessels nosed up to the Bund, on hand to meet them was Father Jacquinot. Behind him hundreds of Chinese, fearful of a repetition of the rape of Nanking, cheered and exploded firecrackers to please the Japanese. The French priest informed the Japanese naval commander of the refugee area for Chinese and received assurances that it would be respected. In return, Father Jacquinot and a British naval officer led the troops on a ceremonial march through the city to the native quarter...
Meanwhile, Barcelona lived through one of its most terrifying 24 hours, marked by six Rightist air raids. For the first time since the war's start the city saw a priest in full vestments march through the streets, carrying a cross, followed by Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo and General José Riquelme, among others...
Born in 1605 in Towcester, England, Shepard received his A. B. from Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and became an ordained deacon, later priest. As an occasional lecturer on religious matters he was in 1630 silenced for non-conformity by Laud, the Bishop of London. He was not allowed to speak publicly henceforth in England because of the example set by Laud, and so in 1634 he set sail for Boston, but was driven back by a storm and remained in hiding in Kingland until the next year, when he sailed again, reaching his destination October...
...been given the backhanded accolade of "a reasonable man" by the pagan Nazi ideologist, Dr. Alfred Rosenberg. Suddenly, last fortnight, Cardinal Innitzer's palace was sacked by an obviously stage-managed Nazi mob. Last week the Cardinal was, to Viennese Nazis, a "black dog," a "traitor," a "political priest." To the rest of the Catholic world he was a hero. All this was because he had advised Ostmark Catholics to proclaim their faith, and had spoken up for religious marriages, religious education of Catholic youth...
...have been slightly injured by crashing glass from a broken window. Later, the crowd made a bonfire in St. Stephen's Square, burned a small crucifix, a painting of the Virgin Mary and a portrait of the Cardinal, scrawled on the walls of the palace: "Away with the priests! To Dachau* with Innitzer!" From the second story of a nearby canons' residence, brown-shirts threw a priest out of a win dow, injuring him seriously...