Word: saints
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supervises Gleason's workaday lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...
...Towers in a Park." It was the first of many plans for cities-plans that called for the redoing of Barcelona, Algiers Antwerp, Buenos Aires, and the war-destroyed French city of Saint-Dié. None were built, but they still marked him as one of the most audacious city planners of his time, the man who more than anyone else foresaw the age of the traffic jam and the exploding slum. At the center of his City of Three Million was a group ot cross-shaped skyscrapers, 50 to 60 stones high, placed far apart in expanses of greebery...
Philomena's saintly popularity soared with what seemed to be the miraculous cure of the dying Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot, French founder of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. Philomena was also one of the favorite saints of St. Jean Vianney (1786-1859), France's famed Curé d'Ars, who called her his "dear little saint" and his "agent in heaven." In recent times some 300,000 tourists have visited her shrine at Mugnano del Cardinale each year, and countless churches have been dedicated to her-more than 100 in the U.S. alone...
Laymen might worry about misaddressed prayers, but churchmen know that there is no such thing as a dead-letter office in heaven. For Sister Marie Helene and all those whose prayers have risen to Philomena through the years, there is some comfort in the closing words on the "saint" in the current edition (1956) of Butler's Lives of the Saints: "We do not know certainly whether she was in fact named Philomena in her earthly life, whether she was a martyr, whether her relics now rest at Mugnano or in some place unknown. And these questions are only...
...scene of peaceful death, or Giovanni di Paolo's Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise, a nonviolent exile in which the principals appear to have shed everything, including expressions of remorse. Of the relatively few El Grecos in the U.S., the chosen canvas is not an anguished saint or sinner, but a corpulent Trinitarian monk at ease in an armchair...