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Religious Career: Ordained a priest (1946) of the Greek Orthodox Church. Continuing his studies on a scholarship awarded by the World Council of Churches to Boston University, he also served as a priest in Orthodox churches jn New England. While in the U.S. he was elected Bishop of Kition, and returned to Cyprus, where two years later he was elected archbishop...
Sihanouk himself performed the ceremony, placing the golden crown on his father's head, while 62 Buddhist monks in bright saffron robes chanted ancient prayers, and a high priest placed a fig leaf behind Suramarit's ear, symbol of long life and wisdom. A few minutes earlier Sihanouk had himself made Premier again, and delivered a little speech accusing the U.S. of wishing to take over and enlarge the Cambodian army. Said a Frenchman, amused by the U.S. predicament, "When he was King, we used to say le Roi est fou [the King is mad]." Last week...
...European scholarship, to attend the College Saint-Barbe. There he gathered about him six of the most brilliant men, one of them Francis Xavier. From that small band grew Loyola's Society of Jesus, officially constituted six years later-in 1540-by Pope Paul III. Ignatius, ordained a priest only three years before the papal recognition, at last became a "general," for the Society of Jesus was set up like a military body. with obedience its prime article...
Bridey & Blarney. But otherwise, Barker's search turned up more blarney than Bridey, even though folklorists, genealogists, historians and language specialists turned themselves inside out to help. Barker found numerous directories and records in which Bridey and several of the characters in her story-lawyers, teachers, a priest-should have been recorded if they had existed. But there was not a trace. Bridey-whose name Barker now spells "Bridie" on the advice of the Irish -had given names of Belfast streets and obscure towns through which she passed on her honeymoon trip and on a journey...
...little nauseating, the Bridey Murphy part of the book is, by contrast, charming. But the recordings of the author's interviews with her make up less than half of the book's content. She is an ingenuous young lady who seems to have been as fond of her priest as her husband. Once in the astral world, she says she saw a lot of Father John, but Brian wasn't around much. She knows a few Irish songs, can dance an old Irish Mourning Jig, and doesn't like to cooperate when Bernstein, over-eager for the facts, asks...