Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Warszawy, in a rare personal attack on the cardinal, charged him with deliberately seeking to provoke an "atmosphere of persecution and martyrdom." Last week Cardinal Wyszynski hit back. He journeyed to the ancient western Polish city of Gniezno on a pilgrimage in honor of Poland's first patron saint. St. Adalbert.* Though city officials barred the procession from its traditional route through the center of town because of "traffic problems." 8.000 hymn-singing worshipers solemnly marched in a cold drizzle to an open-air Mass before the 980-year-old cathedral. Predicted the cardinal: despite continuing Communist threats...
...life of service to the friary and the city as a tertiary of the order. This week Pope John XXIII amended the slight and more: at a 3½-hour cere mony in St. Peter's Basilica he made Martin de Porres the church's first mulatto saint...
Fifty-five years ago, the first workmen came to Washington's Mount Saint Alban to build a canopy under which President Theodore Roosevelt set the foundation stone for the Washington Cathedral. Now, in the still unfinished splendor of this Episcopal Church, the Very Rev. Francis Sayre Jr., dean of the cathedral, enjoys speculating on the progress of the many workmen who-on one job or another-have been around ever since. If past performance is a guide, the cathedral will not be completed until 1991, but Dean Sayre is undisturbed by temporal equations. His only hope, he says modestly...
Sister Nazarena with her asceticism is doing a great service for the whole human race. She puts me in mind of Simeon Stylites the Elder (A.D. 388-459), who sat on top of a soft, pillar for 36 years. The church made a saint...
This time Pop (Karl Maiden) wires the bail, and Berry-berry, risking reactivation of his Momplex, hitchhikes home to Cleveland for Christmas. There he finds an unexpected present: a blonde called Echo O'Brien (Eva Marie Saint). They fall in love, and for a few idyllic weeks Berry-berry lives for more than kicks. But when Echo gets pregnant. Berry-berry gets lost. In despair, she drives her car off an embankment. "I hate life!" Berry-berry groans. But he goes right on living, if it can be called that...