Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lowly Indian named Quauhtlatohua left his home in Cuauhtitlan to go to mass in Tlaltelolco. His name had been changed at baptism to Juan Diego. As he passed by the barren, rugged hill of Tepeyac, site of old Aztec shrines which the Spaniards had overthrown, there appeared to him, amid rainbow colors and heavenly music, a beautiful woman. It was the Virgin Mary! She addressed Juan Diego as hijo mio (my son), told him to go at once to the bishop and say that she wished a church built on the hill. Juan Diego went, but the Bishop...
...next month a million pilgrims are expected to view it. St. Francis Xavier, one of St. Ignatius Loyola's associates in founding the Society of Jesus, is regarded by his church as the greatest missionary since the time of the Apostles. The church in Goa was made a shrine to his memory, but the Society of Jesus secured his right arm in 1614, placed it in the Jesuit mother church, Rome's Gesu...
William Henry ("Cocklebur Bill") Murray, Governor of Oklahoma, went to Des Moines, addressed the national convention of the Farmers' Union in the manner and speech of a presidential candidate.* Waitresses at the Shrine Tempie wore in their caps badges marked: ALFALFA BILL MURRAY FOR PRESIDENT...
...policeman caught them. A judge fined them each $5 & costs. Speaking before a Knights of Pythias convention at Cincinnati, Senator James John Davis of Pennsylvania advised "everyone to join some organization in order to express oneself.'' Senator Davis is a Moose, Mason, member of the Mystic Shrine and the Grotto, Knight of Pythias, Odd Fellow, Elk, Eagle, Forester, and a member of "many other fraternal orders." He also belongs to Chevy Chase, National Press, Congressional Country and Burning Tree clubs in Washington, and to the Americus Republican, Dequesne and Atlantic clubs of Pittsburgh...
...Catholic priest of the Diocese of Detroit, whose weekly talk over a 16-station hook-up was a Columbia religious feature last year. Father Coughlin several years ago began to be heard over the radio on time bought with money given him by worshippers at his Royal Oak. Mich, shrine to Ste. Therese, the Little Flower of Jesus. Contributions from wealthy Detroit Catholics later enabled him to buy an hour a week from Columbia. He used this time at first to praise Ste. Therese, later to denounce Communism, unemployment, employers and finally specific employers. Embarrassed by his zeal, which offended...