Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Miracle. Mother Seton's followers first advanced her claim to sainthood in the 1880s. Eventually two miracles attributed to Mother Seton's intercession were confirmed by the Vatican's Sacred Congregation of Rites. Confirmation of two additional miracles is usually required for canonization; in Mother Seton's case, however, Pope Paul decided that one would suffice. It occurred in 1963 when Carl Kalin, a construction worker, was stricken with a complicated viral affliction of the brain...
...Peyre, "are indeed mystery men born in paradise or some devil's pit." In his brilliant study of Gandhi, Erik Erikson detected a "shrewdness [that] seemed to join his capacity to focus on the infinite meaning in finite things?a trait which is often associated with the attribution of sainthood." The rule that great leaders are summoned forth by great issues can be persuasively argued from, say, the Churchillian example?a brilliant, irascible aristocrat who was settling into a relatively unsuccessful old age when the war called him forth to embody a people's grand defiance...
...tastes change, even in the Singapore of the '60s. Jack discovers that exhibitionism, sadism and much, much more are in demand. When he refuses to pander to such tastes, he feels the first flush of sainthood. Theroux's title is teasingly ambiguous. Is it merely an ironic claim for Jack or a portentous comment on the corruption of the modern world? The book is clever, but its consistent facetiousness allows the author to avoid facing a basic fact: however one chooses to view it, in pimping there is always one party who gets a raw deal...
...considered as major deities Buddha, Christ, and Mohammed. They harbored in their pantheon of lesser deities such people as Marcus Aurelius, Georges Clemenceau, Joan of Arc, Victor Hugo, and Thomas Jefferson. Winston Churchill was enshrined after 1945, but Charlie Chaplin was considered and dropped as a candidate for sainthood at about the same time...
...bottles of burned sacramental olive oil, Brother André reportedly cured as many as 15,000 crippled, blind and dying pilgrims a year. When he died in 1937, at the age of 91, half a million people filed past his bier, and Brother André was put up for sainthood...