Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...
...chauvinistic, miracle-mongering high rabbis will hear nothing of this apostasy of fleshly bliss, and in an ambiguous ending, Judith either embraces or resigns herself to the duplicity of her sainthood. If Shaw, in Saint Joan, implies that saints are too pure a currency for the world, Giraudoux, with a more sardonic vision, suggests that they are the world's counterfeit coins...
...Jean-Paul Sartre who canonized Jean Genet. But it was Genet himself-sodomist, petty criminal, playwright (The Blacks)-who thought up the notion that purified evil could be a kind of sainthood. His self-nomination is announced and ritually celebrated in The Thief's Journal, written in the '40s, which is just now translated and published in the U.S. By his own lights, Genet is indeed a saint. But he is a watch-charm saint, a petty demon whose villainy is on so small a scale that its very earnestness is laughable. The crimes that this Narcissus drops...
...Uganda martyrs were beatified by Pope Benedict XV in 1920, achieved elevation to sainthood when the Sacred Congregation of Rites accepted as miraculous two cures from pulmonary plague attributed to their intercession. A shrine has been erected at Namugongo, near the site of their martyrdom, and Uganda today has become one of the strongest outposts in Africa. About 2,000,000 Ugandans are Roman Catholic, and three of the country's eight dioceses are governed by black bishops, one a descendant of an Uganda martyr...
...moun tain town of San Giovanni Rotondo, not far from Foggia in southeastern Italy. Here was a shrine to a saint who was not only popular but who provided the extra added attraction of being alive as well. Padre Pio was not officially a saint; to qualify for sainthood, one must be dead and have been responsible for at least four unchallenged miracles. But one day in 1918, the Capuchin friar looked at his hands and what he saw terrified him so that he fainted; the frightened monks who came to help crossed themselves and called a doctor. The credulous...