Word: priests
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. The Rev. Thomas Cunningham, 53, weather-beaten Jesuit priest for 24 years in arctic Alaska, who traveled on dogsled with chalice and folded altar to his far-flung parishioners, translated Catholic hymns into the Eskimo tongue; of a heart attack; in Point Barrow, Alaska. Father Tom was guide in 1958 to a party of 19 U.S. scientists trapped on a narrow ice island when it was dislodged by a storm, kept up morale until the whole party was rescued by plane...
Bonporti: Concerti a Quattro (I Musici Ensemble; Epic). Four of the ten polyphonic concertos, marked Opus n by a recently discovered Italian Jesuit philosopher whose lifelong ambition was not to compose music but to become canon at the Cathedral of Trento. Bonporti (1672-1749), who remained an ordinary priest and died brokenhearted, abandoned Corelli's standard concerto-grosso form, loaded his dialogues between violins, violas and bass with such a personal, rhythmic melody that he became a forerunner of 19th century romanticism...
...official and authorized expression of the one Catholic Church in this country. But at the same time, it has been cleansed of the abuses and corrupt doctrines of the Middle Ages." Asked if many parishioners had been converted to Roman Catholicism as a result of the ousted priest's activities, Dr. Stockwood snorted, "Perverted, not converted...
Ikhnaton never entered a temple of Amon again. Turning against the priests, he withdrew their profitable monopoly in the Nubian gold fields and won powerful support by giving it to the army. With the help of a minor priest, he invented a sun-drenched theology based on the insignificant deity Aton, built a new city, Aketaten, and chiseled the name of Amon from every temple in the land...
...Temple of the Golden Pavilion, by Yukio Mishima. A masterly exercise in reason-why literature-in this case, why a demented Buddhist priest, loathing beauty, burns down a magnificent 14th century Zen temple...