Word: requiems
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...last week. Squatted around his corpse, praying without cease, his 40 "Immortals" waited his resurrection. Authorities looked at the body, decided it had better be buried while there was something still left to bury. Next day in overalls and gingham the "Immortals," who support themselves by farming, chanted a requiem as Brother Isaiah was lowered into the earth. He lay in a plain pine box, his head pointed toward the north, his long, white whiskers flowing over his long, white robe. His followers plowed and harrowed the earth above him, went away to await his second coming...
...death of the "Nickel" Indian, told how medicine men had offered up prayers to the Sun God. Natos, told how his people had chanted the weird "Wolf Song" to carry him to the Happy Hunting Ground. Meantime at Browning. Mont.. Father M. J. Haligan chanted a high requiem mass over Two Guns' body which was then laid in a Roman Catholic grave...
Inside the cathedral was tremulous with the yellow light of a thousand candles. Years dead is Belgium's great Cardinal Mercier, but his successor, Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines, sang the Solemn Requiem Mass in sombre black and silver vestments. Though it is a strict rule of Belgian court etiquet that women shall not appear at state funerals, neither etiquet nor prostration from grief could keep gentle Queen Elisabeth from her husband's funeral.† Heavily veiled she slipped through a side door from the sacristy, and took her place on the dais beside President Albert Lebrun...
...Radcliffe Choral Society was also present at the meeting and the clubs jointly Sang selections from Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Brahm's Requiem, both of which have been, sung at Symphony concerts...
After the concert there will be a joint meeting of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society at which parts of the Brahms Requiem will be sung...