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...morning in 1498, a Dominican monk named Girolamo Savonarola said a last "Mass in the chapel of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then he and two fellow Dominicans were dragged outside to a cross-shaped scaffold. As thousands of Florentines jeered, they were stripped of their white habits. The last of the three, Savonarola silently received the hangman's noose. As he died, a pyre was lit at the bottom of his scaffold...
...Savonarola, fanatic and intolerant. Like most honest men, he is torn with doubts. Only too easily he can see his opponents' point of view. He is a man moved by compassion, who desires only justice and love. It sounds inadequate. In politics he is often oversimple and makes honest politicians impatient. Yet, somehow representing the Christian and liberal tradition of the West, quite untainted by the new philosophical short cuts that lead over the edge, he has made himself a quiet power wherever men consider the rights of underprivileged peoples...
Bishop Sheen is a unique product of two unique historic forces-the Roman Catholic Church and the United States of America. Into the making of Fulton Sheen went St. Paul and Thomas Jefferson, Savonarola and George F. Babbitt...
...relaxed, but, as his wife puts it, "he has a clock built inside him." He never stops ticking. His restless eyes have an intensely pained look, particularly when he has to sit still and listen to someone else talk. In appearance, friends have compared him to a better-fed Savonarola. He likes Brooks Brothers suits, good leather, fast cars, fine food (the waitresses at his favorite restaurants are under strict instruction not to tempt him with rolls and desserts), but whatever he enjoys, he usually enjoys in a hurry. He sometimes catches a movie, but rarely finds time...
...Brick Co. There was neither smoking nor drinking in the Eliot household. The Eliots were a literary-minded family: evenings, Tom, his brother and his five sisters would cluster around father as he read Dickens to them. Tom's mother wrote a dramatic poem on the life of Savonarola. Tom Eliot was a frail and quiet child. Often, when friends wanted him to come out and play, they found him curled up in a big leather armchair, reading...