Word: saints
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jean Baptiste Vianney. During most of his lifetime (1786-1859) the priest of an obscure village near Lyon, the Curé of Ars is today by papal command a model for parish priests the world over. Since it takes more than mere goodness to make a saint, M. Vianney (as Hagiographer Ghéon for brevity calls him) is easier to admire than imitate...
...associates, he was visited, tormented and in fact "infested" by the Devil. The Cure read people's minds in the confessional, performed small miracles such as causing grain to multiply during famine, large ones such as curing illness. His medical miracles M. Vianney modestly attributed to another saint, with whom he said he held periodic converse: a First-Century martyr named St. Philomena...
...Reverend Dr. Norman Burdett Nash '09, professor of Christian Social Ehtics at the Episcopal Theological Seminary in Cambridge, yesterday was named rector of Saint Paul's School of Concord, New Hampshire, to succeed the late Samuel S. Drury...
...most cockeyed California cult of all-The Mighty I AM Presence- arrived in Manhattan on a tour of the U. S. which they are making separately (he by car, she by plane, harp "by courtesy of American Express"). Most articulate of the cult's spokesmen: one Saint Germain. Example: "He raised George Washington up to be the focal point around whom the American patriots could rally. And he appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around...
...Manhattan the Screwballs of America, "a new society to protect the right to laugh," met for their first national conference in the 35th Street excavation of the unfinished Sixth Avenue subway, appointed President Roosevelt their patron saint, cabled Adolf Hitler: "If the sound of laughter is ever heard in Berlin, run for the nearest border...