Word: saint
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When the spirit did call Wojtyla, however, it was not the way Sapieha wanted. The young man had become enamored of the mystical writings of the great Carmelite saint John of the Cross and wanted to become a contemplative friar. Wojtyla petitioned Sapieha three times for permission to enter a monastery; each time, the Archbishop would hear none of it. He did not want | Wojtyla walled in as a mystical recluse. Could not the young man see what God really wanted him to do? Wojtyla got the message. He would become a diocesan priest, serving the people directly, a pastor...
...boys, identically clad in blue blazers, gray slacks and red ties emblazoned with the school seal, packed the 800-seat Saint Paul's Church with adoring parents and visitors from far away...
Yesterday's concert, where the boys were joined by the 16-member Saint Paul Men's Schola, included Benjamin Britten's "Ceremony of Carols," two pieces for handbells, and familiar Christmas songs like "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" and "O Little Town of Bethlehem...
Virtually the only Fifth Avenue building without even a sprig of festoonery is Saint Patrick's Cathedral. But then Christmas in New York, as in most American cities, is less a religious feast than a mercantile festival, whose motto could be "Buy now, pray later." Many retailers rely on this season for fully half their sales and profits. Similarly, performing-arts organizations use holiday chestnuts like Amahl and the Night Visitors and Handel's Messiah as surefire crowd lures. The New York City Ballet's production of George Balanchine's The Nutcracker plays to more than 100,000 people each...
...stoic who could, when required, perform as a remarkable religious painter, as the second series of his The Seven Sacraments shows. His early Martyrdom of St. Erasmus, 1628, sticks in the mind because it is such a singular combination of ferocity and decorum -- the torture of a saint by evisceration, a live man's guts being drawn out on a windlass, yet with the shock of the blood edited away or, rather, subliminally transferred to a cascade of red drapery below Erasmus' body. In his work, pagan antiquity and 17th century Catholicism eloquently support each other...