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Then followed an amazing scene. The angry crowd tramped off to assemble in front of Nazidom's holiest shrine, Adolf Hitler's original Brown House. While S. S. Troops stood undecidedly on guard, the Protestants spat at the bronze swastikas on either side of the door, yelled defiance at Bishop Müller and Adolf Hitler himself...
Exhorting eminent Catholics to attend the international pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady at Lourdes, France on Sept. 20, the Catholic Archbishop of Birmingham, England, exclaimed from his pulpit last week: "What a fine impulse for real peace in Europe if Hitler were to attend...
...kept diggers of the University of Chicago last week by Leader Gordon Loud, was to excavate a 420 x 250 ft. temple, connected to the palace by a graceful stone viaduct and dedicated to Nabu, god of scribes and historians. Nabu's staue was gone from the central shrine where once it stood. But on the stonework bordering the steps was a prayer addressed to Nabu by King Sargon. There were carvings in wood and ivory, some of Egyptian inspiration, others bearing Phonecian winged sphinxes, bronze hinges engraved with images of bulls, men, centaurs, mermaids; an ivory fragment depicting...
...last week prayed thousands upon thousands of men, women & children throughout the Christian world, beginning a novena to St. Anne, mother of Mary, grandmother of Jesus, whose day is July 26. U. S. worshippers flocked to Manhattan, to St. Anne's, her national shrine, or to St. Jean de Baptiste, where a fragment of her wristbone is credited with many a miracle of healing. Other U. S. pilgrims traveled to Quebec where they joined Canadians in kneeling at famed St. Anne de Beaupr...
Father O'Hara has never cared much about watching his university's famed football team in action. But before every game, each of which is dedicated to a saint, Notre Dame footballers go to him at the Shrine of St. Olaf for prayer and blessing. When President Emeritus Henry Smith Pritchett of Carnegie Foundation pointed an accusing finger at what he called Notre Dame commercialism last year, Father O'Hara snapped back: "He starts with the false assumption that highly publicized football is inimical to scholastic attainment." Then he went on to point out how football profits...