Word: saint
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week they found out. The Queen, the Prince Consort, and the heiress apparent, Princess Juliana Louise Emma Marie Wilhelmina, proceeded to the Church of Saint Jacob and participated in a service of thanksgiving. That...
...When the Italians first annexed us, they did not try to 'nationalize' or 'renationalize' us, as they do now. Then Mussolini came. We call him 'The Patron Saint of Painters,' because he first made us paint our street signs in Italian below the old lettering, which was mostly German, and then he made us paint the German out. He suppressed all our German language newspapers, and many of our old people can read only in that tongue. He invoked an old Austrian law which makes it a crime for any one to teach more than three children without a license...
...Manhattan at a meeting held to collect funds for the National Cathedral of Saint Peter and Saint Paul, James E. Freeman (Bishop of Washington), its head, exclaimed...
Outside the bells of Saint Gudule moaned the grief of the world. Women who had been praying for hours in the street outside the clinic crossed themselves once again; rose with stiffened knees and chilled bodies. "Requiem in aetemam dona eis, Domine," prayed all society. Lying in state at Malines on Sunday, the frail old body was approached with reverence by a long queue. They touched the hems o? hio robes, they brough/ pious tokens and keepsakes for the cold fingers to brush. Toward evening the line still stretched far down the dusky avenue. There was rioting before the doors...
When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...