Word: sainthood
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...protean figure. Hollis' attempt to Christianize Orwell is no more mistaken than the projections of R. J. Voorhees, for instance, who writes about Orwell's "Secular crusade," or of John Atkins who calls him a "social saint," forgetting perhaps that Orwell had written in his essay on Gandhi, "Sainthood is a thing human beings must avoid...
...society spread throughout England, and in her lifetime chapters were opened in France and the U.S., where the society now runs 36 schools, including Rosemont College on Philadelphia's Main Line. In 1879, at 70, Cornelia Connelly died, leaving for church investigators now weighing claims for her sainthood a revealing passage written before she became a postulant: "It is for the glory of God that we should be saints . . . God wills me to be a saint. I will to be a saint. Therefore I shall be a saint. Live for Eternity. Eternity. Eternity...
...Roman Catholic Church is investigating 313 candidates for beatification, the preliminary to sainthood. Rome and Naples lead the field with 56 candidates each. But no fledgling saints are being considered from the whole of the American continent, Asia, Africa or Australia...
French Novelist Druon (The Film of Memory) seems perfectly at home in this stormy period. It was a time of flagging religious faith and burgeoning superstition, when witchcraft seemed more plausible than sainthood, and not even King Philip was surprised to find that a dying man's curse was as deadly as a knife: within a year of De Molay's howled imprecation from the fire, Pope, prosecutor and the King himself had followed the Templar to the grave...
right up there with Peter and Paul. I'm bucking for sainthood I'm praying all day I'm a-bucking for sainthood On that glorious ever morious glorious judgment...