Word: relics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ceremoniously last week Dr. Fernberger presented the relic to the University of Pennsylvania. It consisted of a few frail, faded leaves clinging to a spindly stem, starkly silhouetted against a rectangle of white cardboard...
...protection Father Theophilus, by special permission, wore a pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament. "Horrible excrements, obviously preternatural in their volume and filth, were ejected by the possessed woman, as the devils' endeavored to hit the Blessed Sacrament (although they always missed It)." When the priest approached with a relic of the True Cross concealed under his cassock, there were howls: "I cannot bear that! Oh, it is tormenting! It is unbearable!" The possessed recoiled at the mention of St. Michael the Archangel, protested at a relic of the Little Flower, cried "That burns, that scorches!" when holy water...
...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...ever presented. For a pageant finale there was Respighi's new La Fiamma, with massive choruses, lavish orchestration, an impassioned, queer-grained heroine who is burned at the stake for indulging in witchcraft. The heroine was Soprano Rosa Raisa, bluff in acting, uneven in voice. But Raisa, a relic of Samuel Insull's opera days, was an ace compared with the majority of the singers who have appeared in Chicago this season.* La Fiamma was by & large the City Opera Company's most creditable production. It was not enough to make subscribers forget what they...
...place for its dissolution. But Mr. Gordon is going to clean up and preserve the island. He is going to cut the brushwood out of the depression which is all that is left of Harman Blennerhassett's home, freshen up the well which is the last material relic of this half-forgotten episode in the days of the nation's growing pains...