Word: rite
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International...
...Lady of Lebanon Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic worshippers heard Mass sung in Old Syriac or Aramaic, the language Christ supposedly spoke, by a bearded prelate who looked more Jewish than Catholic. He was Most Rev. Cyril George Dallal. 60, Archbishop of Mosul, head of the Syrian Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, shepherd of 90,000 Christians who live among the 1,000,000 Mohammedans of Iraq. He had just arrived in the U. S., to tour cities in which live Syrian Catholics. How many such there are, no U. S. prelate seemed to know, although the Syrians...
...Syrians whose faith is one of Christendom's oldest, who live on the sites of such ancient places as Ur, Nineveh and Babylon. Like his swart, bearded self, many of his flock exhibit in their countenances traces of their Jewish ancestry. Archbishop Dallal will find uncounted Syrian Rite noses in half-a-dozen U. S. cities, particularly Grand Rapids, Mich. and Jacksonville...
...practice in Manhattan after 1903, Architect Pope worked hard and resourcefully, designed show houses for wealthy people like Ogden Mills. Mrs. Graham Fair Vanderbilt. In 1916 he won the year's award of the Architectural League with his design for the $2,000,000 Scottish Rite Temple in Washington, a massive affair of marble and bronze. In the one architectural movement of his time that was distinctly American-skyscraper building- John Russell Pope took little interest. Neither was he affected by the style variously called Functionalism, Modernism. Internationalism, whose father was Frank Lloyd Wright, whose grandfather was Louis Sullivan...
Legally and technically George VI was every inch as much a King the moment after Edward's abdication was signed as he was after last week's ceremony. What went on in the Abbey was a purely religious rite sanctifying King George as a monarch, anointing him as a persona mixta (half priest, half layman) and inheritor of the divine right of kings. All through the three-hour ceremony, the most important person there was not the King, his nobles or his ministers, but a hawk-nosed old gentleman with a cream-&-gold cope who stood...