Word: sacristans
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...smart priest, Padre Martinez, who knew how to lick a dish and have it too. His religious ministrations paid him well, except in the little placitá of San José. Here he was treated as an ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely. Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image...
Only a sincere Catholic can fully realize the shock sustained by Giuseppe Carmagnola. He gradually recovered presence of mind, rushed inside the church to inform the sacristan...
...this happy birthday, came other more sinister reports. In changing the title of his country from "The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats & Slovenes" to the "Kingdom of Jugoslavia," Dictator-King Alexander has set boiling afresh a stew of acute racial feeling. In the Cathedral at Zagreb a sharp-eared sacristan discovered a ticking bomb timed to explode during the King's birthday mass. Railway employes fished a 60-lb. bomb off the tracks of the Zagreb-Belgrade railroad just before the special train of a royalist delegation was due to pass. In Zagreb railway station one Dr. Rittig, Croatian...
...tall white spouse. Here was a final detachment of the Papal Army, elaborately upholstered Gendarmes in fur busbies, varnished jack boots, flashing sabres. In a knot of red, pink, crimson, purple and white, stood the Grand Master of the Holy Hospice, the Secret Almoner, the Pope's Sacristan, Secret Chamberlains, Knights of the Cape and Sword, Noble Guards, Cardinals, Lay Gentlemen-in-Waiting...
Risking everything to capture the city before relief arrived, "Sacristan" Iturbe sent an infantry charge along the beach to force the harbor fortifications. Again the rebels were beaten back by machine gun fire...