Word: scapulars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other stories still make exciting reading. Richard Harding Davis gives a clean, dramatic report of a Cuban revolutionist's gallant death before a firing squad (1897) and leaves him "asleep in the wet grass, with his motionless arms still tightly bound behind him, with the scapular twisted awry across his face, and the blood from his breast sinking into the soil he had tried to free." Winifred Black, the original sob sister, sets the pattern for countless future sob sister leads with "I begged, cajoled and cried my way through the line of soldiers" to get into Galveston after...
...Catholic chaplains I have talked with. One or two glamorous incidents on a life raft or in an airplane might make the headlines. The picture of a crucifix and a scapular medal gives the impression that every soldier says an Act of Contrition every night. But I have found instances of Catholics who don't even know, the Hail Mary and as far as the Act of Contrition is concerned, don't make me laugh! I have had soldier after soldier repeat after me word for word the Act of Contrition so that I could give him absolution...
...spiritual character he entered a monastery in 1920, donned tunic, girdle, scapular, hood and mantle, began to study the Carmelite specialty, mystical theology. Eventually he became head of the order in all France...