Word: sarto
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Immediately after the "contest," catcher Charles Sarto Walsh, Jr. of West Medford was elected captain of the varsity nine for the 1952 season. Third baseman Kevin Patrick Reilly of West Roxbury and Adams House received the Wingate Trophy as the team's most valuable player, while center fielder Edward Nixon Foynes of Quincy and Dudley Hall won the Wendell Bat, emblem of Harvard batting supremacy...
This week, for the first time in almost three centuries, a Pope was beatified.* Giuseppe Sarto, Pope Pius X, was that rarest of combinations-a holy man and a great statesman...
...Lombard village cobbler, young "Beppo" Sarto was as bright as he was poor, but he never lost his humility. Even when he was a fledgling country priest, his powerful sermons attracted attention beyond his own parish. He was raised to be a monsignor, then Bishop of Mantua, in 1893 Cardinal Patriarch of Venice. He made a point of giving away everything that he had. In his will he wrote: "I was born poor, I have lived poor, and I wish to die poor...
...Cardinal Sarto's election to the papacy in 1903 came as a surprise to him. When he saw the balloting swinging in his favor, he rose to plead passionately with his brother cardinals not to elect him to a post for which he felt himself unfitted and unworthy. But his eleven-year reign was packed with decisions that have proved historic for the Roman Catholic Church...
...Nobis. In August 1914, heartsick at the World War then beginning, Giuseppe Sarto died at 79. Even during his lifetime he had been spoken of as a saint; soon after his death, steps were taken to proclaim him one. In his case, the "process" toward sainthood, which sometimes takes centuries, has moved in double-quick time; only last fall (TIME, Sept. 18) he was declared "venerable...