Word: saints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps, come to think of it, colleges should give a MRS. degree. To receive this degree candidate must have the cooking skill of a chef, the first-aid knowledge of a scoutmaster, the diplomatic ability of a foreign-service officer, the patience of a saint, the knowledge of child psychology of a specialist in this field. I suppose, though, by the time a girl had completed the course she would be too old to marry...
From St. Francis Xavier, awaiting his lonely death on an island off the China coast in 1552, to Bishop James Walsh, suffering in a Chinese Communist jail in 1960; from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five...
...with an impressive armed escort (200 infantrymen, 200 spearmen and 70 cavalrymen) to the Procurator in Caesarea. Paul remained there in prison for two years, finally invoked his right as a Roman citizen to a trial in the capital. And so, after a shipwreck off Malta, the old saint arrived at Rome at last. He was in chains, but it was almost a triumphal entry; Rome's Christian community sent delegations to greet him along the Appian...
Simone grew up in Paris, was 19 when she pitched in to help support her family when her father took off for England to work for De Gaulle (he later became chief of U.N. interpreters). After the liberation, she hung out in Saint-Germaindes-Pres, at the Cafe de Flore and La Rose Rouge. She took up with a group of young actors, and soon she was acting herself. In 1947 Simone married Yves Allegret, the director who helped her through her first films...
...Though he insists he is no scientist, Cousteau has the warm support of scientists around the world for his ceaseless searching of the sea. Concedes Director Roger Revelle of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who calls Cousteau the founder of undersea archaeology: "Cousteau's patron saint should be Ulysses, not Aristotle...