Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highhandedness. "There is no character on earth more elevated and pure than that of a learned and upright judge. He exerts an influence like the dews of heaven falling without observation," said Daniel Webster, no doubt casting his eyes heavenward. Definitions of a good judge read like recommendations for sainthood: compassionate yet firm, at once patient and decisive, all wise and upstanding...
...local politician and the glory of the Democratic Party. Terre, 26, the most voluble Roche, shipped off a couple of these campaign ditties to the White House for L.B.J. to use in his battle against Barry Goldwater; she also wrote a letter to the Pope, requesting instructions for achieving sainthood. Neither the President nor the Pontiff replied...
...come a national folk hero. Barbara Walters nags him for an interview. He twinkles, touches another match to one of his hundred or so pipes, and declines. International bankers claim, perhaps extravagantly, that his reappointment is needed to steady the stumbling dollar. American businessmen have raised him to near sainthood, even those who do not necessarily agree with all of Burns' tactics but want him to stay. Housewives, engineers and preachers write Burns that the nation needs him. He has become a soft-voiced beguiling problem for Carter...
Pope Paul VI approved a decree this summer citing "the heroic virtues" of Father Damien, the first step on the road toward sainthood for the Belgian-born missionary. Famed for his devotion to victims of leprosy in Hawaii, Father Damien followed a calling that led to his death from the disease. Now the leprosarium that he made famous, Kalaupapa, is dying of attrition-and for the most welcome reasons: new cases of the disease have become rare among ethnic Hawaiians and part-Hawaiians, and leprosy can be treated so successfully today that newly identified patients soon become noncontagious. The savage...
...Neumann's deep spirituality, not the buildings, that fostered a campaign for sainthood, beginning six years after his death. Once he was pronounced Venerable in 1921, the next stage was to be named Blessed, which meant that two healings were certified by the Vatlican as miracles attributed to Neumann's intercessions in heaven. One further healing was required for sainthood. The church provides these accounts of the Neumann miracles...