Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration and established her feast day (Aug. 11), and in 1855 Pope Pius IX approved a Mass and office for that...
...reporter's nights, through a painful meeting with his own father (Annibale Ninchi), an amiable nonentity whose life has no more meaning than his own; through an orgy of degenerate aristocrats; through the inexplicable suicide of his idol, a sort of humanist saint who brutally kills his two small children with himself...
...Saint in the House. He is up by 10 and at work in his study, getting on with his next book, The Decline of Pleasure. She, meanwhile, is upstairs disproving his title ?flaked out like Perrault's princess at least until i p.m. When they were married, he fondly told her that he would bring her coffee each morning, a custom that lasted some ten or twelve minutes. "The first time I brought it, having gotten up quietly," he recalls, "I gently woke her, and nearly got blown out of the room. She told me that must never, never...
Everybody felt it. Nerves were frightfully on edge. The worst of it was that Verwoerd got more and more pleased with his own policies. He was never angry-just fanatical. He set himself up as a sort of smiling saint with a crusade, rather pitying the .others who couldn't see the light. It was a very grating experience...
...enemies call him the "Mad Apostle." Admirers call him a saint. Awards like the Lenin Peace Prize, support from both leftist and conservative groups in Italy and Europe, and acclaim from such different figures as Camus and Aldous Huxley make it difficult to determine just what kind of movement Dolci is leading. All that you can definitely say is that Dolci has been able to capture the imaginations of men throughout the world. His movement is non-violent, and he shuns politics as a source of corruption, yet he is attempting a regional development plan for all of eastern Sicily...