Word: saints
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Saint Nick...
...Another saint whose representations far outnumber the images of Shakyamuni is Avalokiteshvara. He has developed into one of the most important divinities among northern Buddhists and is regarded as the god (or goddess) of mercy, seafarers, as the bestower of children, etc., by many millions of believing Tibetans, Chinese and Japanese...
...famed Hindu doctrine that thou shalt not kill even a bug-much less a human-was sensationally reinterpreted last week, by the potent ascetic, sage and saint, Mahatma Gandhi...
...slope. Little jets of steam hissed from the mountain's side. The 10,000 inhabitants reluctantly prepared to leave. White surpliced priests marched chanting part way up the volcano. In supplication and prayer they bore relics of St. Vitus, born in Sicily, or St. Leonardo, their patron saint...
...Turkey. At Constantinople, men who knew of the beauty of old Byzantium, working for Art Dealer Sir Edward Joseph Duveen, dug earnestly. In the large square between Saint Sophia's and the Sultan Ahmed Mosque they found two crumbly piers of brick & stone, supports of the once magnificent Byzantine Baths of Zeuxippus...