Word: religion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...younger ones barely remembered the words. Once more, the Jews of Spain, who used to be the world's richest and proudest, had an open, permanent place of worship. A bent old man sighed: "Now I can die. Now I'll have a funeral following the religion of my forefathers...
...Never to Return." Many were forced to become Christians. It was said of the converts, however, that, as soon as they were baptized, they went home to wash off the holy water and that they secretly practiced their old religion. A saying of the day held: "There are three ways of wasting water-by the running of a river to the sea, by diluting wine, and by baptizing...
When the Nazis invaded Yugoslavia, Father George was a Croatian organizer of Catholic youth groups. He promptly took off his clerical garb, went underground, and with many other young Christians, eventually joined Slovak partisans. Fighting side by side with Russians, they kept their religion under cover-celebrating Mass, and even holding retreats, in forests with lookouts posted...
Even registered Orthodox priests cannot hold classes in religion for children under 18. A nine-year-old boy showed Father George how children learned their catechism. "He held up his left hand, fingers outspread. T have five friends. I know my catechism from my comrade, who learned it from his grandmother. I have to teach it to my five friends . . . I give them an examination. Then if they pass, they become teachers. Each of them has to pass it on to five other friends. That's the way it spreads...
...their homes and the demands of current fashion (Queen Elizabeth's habit of ripping her stylish, padded blouse open right down to the navel on warm days greatly shocked the French ambassador). All the elements that have influenced human clothing are touched: war, poverty, industrialization, poetry, hero worship, religion, royal mistresses...