Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until a few weeks ago the 11,000 citizens of the sober little town of Saint-Junien in central France got along all right with their Communist mayor. Then M. le Maire Martial Pascaud decided to make a gesture of obeisance to his masters in the Kremlin. Tottering old Communist Leader Marcel Cachin paid a visit to Saint-Junien. To mark the occasion, Mayor Pascaud marched a party of 100 local Communists down Saint-Junien's main street, the Boulevard Leon Gambetta, to hang new signs on each corner rechristening the street Boulevard Joseph Staline. When the street...
Last week in Rome, the road was cleared for his beatification and eventual canonization: he was given the title of Venerable Joseph Sarto. Not since 1712 has a Pope been canonized.*A venerable may not be designated a saint until the church has approved and recognized at least two miracles. Last week documented records of Pius X's miracles, including two more from the U.S., were pouring into the Vatican...
Such a man defies biography. The writer of it should have both the religious passion to comprehend how a man who sometimes seemed almost a devil could also be almost a saint; and the theological dispassion to talk, without raising his voice, about the most controversial Christian of modern times. Biographer Bainton has plenty of dispassion, and also a handsome way of writing. His Luther biography is easily the most readable in English; if it fails to understand all the Martin Luthers and to reconcile them in one man, that was more than Luther could do, either...
...brigadier general at 36, a major general six months later. In England, LeMay decided that too many of his B-17s were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went up more...
...front of the new white laboratory of Workman's New Mexico School of Mines in Socorro stands a brick-red statue of an ethereal young girl holding a bird at her bosom. The students call her "the desert maiden," but Dr. Workman says she is Santa Rita, "Patron Saint of the Impossible," and just the right patroness for a physics...