Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pure Heart of Mary, or the Oblate Sisters who do whatever work they may be told to do, or the Holy Family Sisters. It is not beyond theory that a Negro may become Pope, even though the Pope be chosen by weighty, ancient precedent. Moreover, not beyond fact is sainthood. There are two Negro saints. The better known is St. Benedict the Moor (called also the Blackamoor, the Black, the Negro). His parents were slaves in Sicily 400 years ago, and, proud, they refused to conceive children unless their master promised their first-born freedom. Thus was St. Benedict prenatally...
...good" and "evil," was perhaps an obvious realm to watch for this rare mother-to-daughter succession. Yet Science is nearly as exacting of one's time and attention as is sainthood, high intrigue or artistic self-expression. Hear Mlle. Curie: "Some women [scientists] do not realize that they must abandon all social obligations in favor of Science. The duties of a family can be accepted, but they are a heavy additional burden. As for myself, I consider Science my essential interest in life...
Some were persons of high degree, some of low ; for example, the candidates for Sainthood from London...
...Cardinal Manning and the Roman Bishops of England petitioned the Pope to "introduce the cause" of 315 persons who had been executed for heresy in the reigns of Henry VIII, Elizabeth, James I (1509-1625). The Pope granted the honor of beatification (Sainthood) to 54 of them and as signed their general feast...
...Jacks prints in this Summer issue an article on The Sainthood of Marcus Aurelius, which is unstoicly ecstatic; a reconciliation of Judaism to European culture; a discussion of Miracle in the Old Testament; Ita de Trinitate Sentiat, which means that one is a trinitarian because one feels it; an article showing that Theologue Butler has not grown stale; contributions by Prof. Estlin Carpenter and Sir Oliver Lodge...