Word: robes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well-wishers on the eve of the journey. Then at 7 a.m. the next day, all began the procession to the temple. A brass band thumped the sendoff, and while Jerm traveled aboard a slow-moving Jeep, young girls carried candles, Jerm's mother brought his saffron robe, an uncle (his father is dead) carried the skull-shaped, cast-iron begging bowl, and his wife followed with the simple bedding he would use during his seclusion...
...mother when she entered parochial school; she received Holy Communion three times a week and tried to practice self-mortification by scrubbing herself raw with pumice. But the day came when her longtime father-confessor charged her with arrogance and disobedience. Simone got flaming mad: "His priest's robe was only a disguise; it covered an old busybody who fed on gossip. With burning face I left the confessional, determined never to set foot in it again...
...professor takes the double handful of "Snowflake" caramels offered him by the girl and puts them in the pocket of his robe...
From that simple church next week, clad in a black, gilded robe and bearing a diamond-studded crown, Mina the Solitary will journey to the patriarchal palace in Cairo, where he will reside, Copts believe, as St. Mark's 116th successor...
Docile, and splendid in a silken robe, the captive Panchen Lama, 22, was trotted out to make the right noises for his Communist masters. "Tibet," he declared, "is always China's Tibet...