Word: saint
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MOTHER OF THE SAINT...
...TEMPTATIONS OF SAINT ANTHONY...
...Saint Jerome, The great name-caller Who cared not a dime For the laws of libel And in his spare time Translated the Bible. Quick to disparage All arts but learning, Jerome liked marriage Better than burning But didn't like woman's Painted cheeks; Didn't like Romans, Didn't like Greeks, Hated Pagans For their Pagan ways, Yet doted on Cicero all his days...
...walls of Paris' Maeght Gallery last week, nudes floated over the Champs-Elysees, an ass crouched impaled on the spire of the church of Saint-Germain-des-Pres with no visible air of discomfort, a sleek donkey proffered flowers to a foreshortened mermaid floating in a bubble above the Bastille. Over the Opera, a huge bouquet flowered against a turkey-blood sky; at its heart were three dim, blue figures echoing Carpeaux' famed group of statuary, The Dance, while two entwined lovers floated down the Avenue de 1'Opera oblivious of traffic (see opposite page). Marc Chagall...
...honor of the most Holy Trinity and for the exaltation of the Catholic faith and for the increase of the Christian religion, through the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the blessed Apostles Peter and Paul and through our own authority ... we decree and define as saint the Blessed Pius X and order his name to be written in the books of saints...