Word: priestly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nashville's ornate Cathedral of the Incarnation this week, Most Rev. William Lawrence Adrian, 53, lately an obscure Iowa priest, was to be installed as the seventh Bishop of Tennessee's 32,300 Catholics. Consecrated in Davenport by the august Apostolic Delegate to the U. S., Most Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Bishop Adrian later recalled how he had learned of his impending elevation : "There among my letters was a communication from the Holy See. With trembling fingers I opened it and read: 'The Holy Father has in mind to choose you Bishop of Nashville...
...Ohio last week bells pealed, peppery incense swirled, the congregation shouted "Oxiose, Oxiose!" ["Son of the Church!"], and Orthodox U. S. Syrians had a new spiritual leader. But the man who was thus consecrated Archbishop of the Syrian Church of North America was not Professor Bashir. He was the priest of St. George's, a heavy-faced, black-bearded Archimandrite named Samuel David...
...Deacon Perry grew up in Providence, in the diocese of which his father has been the urbane, affluent shepherd since 1911. Headmaster Frederick Herbert Sill of Kent School, which graduated young James Perry in 1928, sermonized in the Providence Cathedral last week: "You have had the heart of a priest from your boyhood. You were dedicated to the Lord by your parents...
...Ohio State University, a Jewish rabbi, a Catholic priest and a Methodist minister jointly conducted Holy Week services designed to allay the widespread Christian conviction that Jews alone were responsible for crucifying Jesus Christ. C. Near Albuquerque, N. Mex. on Good Friday, Los Hermanos Penitentes re-enacted their bloody version of Christ's Passion, with increased attention from sightseers and the Press (TIME, March 9). C. In Quebec, Good Friday was celebrated as many Catholics believe it should be everywhere. By proclamation, Mayor J. E. Gregoire ordered all theatres, public buildings, shops closed...
Died. Rt. Rev. Monsignor Timothy ("Father Tim") Dempsey, 68, organizer & operator of six St. Louis poor asylums, mediator of many a gang and labor dispute, best-loved Catholic priest in a big Catholic town; of a heart attack; in St. Louis...