Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consult an atlas you will notice that the town near the (proposed) British terminal is Ashford, not Ashbury, and that on the French side the town is Sangatte, not "St. Gatte." Indeed, as far as I know, the Calendar of Saints does not mention Saint Gatte...
...crucial and most difficult role is Roger, the inarticulate pastry-chef who by the movie's end attains almost saint-like dignity. Charles Aznavour's characterization completely succeeds in making Roger believable without being either irritatingly simple or unworldly...
...Same Dignity." Famed in his own lifetime for his miraculous cures of the dying, Brother Martin was venerated by Limeños as a potential saint almost from the day of his death. He was beatified by Pope Gregory XVI in 1837, and Pope Pius XI reopened the investigation of his life in 1926, after devotion to him had spread outside Peru to the U.S. and Africa...
Clearly, it was Brother Martin's heroic life, rather than the color of his skin, that brought him official church recognition as a saint. But just as clearly, his canonization was intended to honor Roman Catholics in Africa and Asia, and to point up Rome's stiffening opposition to racial prejudice. Notes the official Vatican account of his sanctity: "By his whole apostolic life, his prayers, his words, his example, even his miracles, he made it clear that every race and nationality has the same dignity, the same equality, because we are all sons of one heavenly Father...
...church has already canonized on Negro, St. Benedict the Moor, a 16th century Franciscan whose parents were slaves from Africa; he was declared a saint...