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...rooms of eminent private collectors? How do we know that the jealousy of some other city--Worcester, Springfield, Hartford--may not have inspired the crime? So the lovers of old sanctities asked. Whoever did this deed is no common criminal. He has committed sacrilege. He has pillaged a shrine. Not since the mutilation of the Hermae at the other Athens has such an infamy been perpetrated. Friday the Cod was returned. Where is the Codnapper? --New York Times...
...picture of the Maharaja Sir Chandra Shem Shur Jang Bahada Rana who died some five years ago. It is hard to understand how your reporter got into communication with him since his ashes have long been scattered on the water of the Holy River Bagmota at the famous Pashphati Shrine...
...Shrine of the Little Flower" near Detroit. Money has poured in upon him, more than enough to pay $20,000-a-week expenses and build a showy "Charity Crucifixion Tower," buy statuary for the Shrine. Criticism he can ignore, even that of Boston's stocky old William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who has muttered, "It is better for everyone concerned when a priest keeps his place." For Father Coughlin is responsible only to his superior, Bishop Michael James Gallagher. And he claims the backing of Pope Pius XI who has said that "every minister of holy religion must...
Peter's Bones, Another matter which the Pope has been considering is a shrine nearer home. In a crypt beneath St. Peter's is the reputed tomb of the very founder of the Church. After Christ's resurrection Peter was delivered from jail in Jerusalem by an angel, went to Antioch and then, according to some Protestant and all Catholic opinion, to Rome, where during Nero's persecutions he was crucified head downwards near the spot where his basilica now stands. St. Peter's head is in St. John Lateran. His body is supposed...
Amid transports of joy Chancellor Hitler announced that henceforth the Reichstag will no longer meet in liberal, proletarian Berlin but in imperial, aristocratic Potsdam. On April 1 the new Reichstag will convene for business in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, a national military shrine in which Frederick the Great lies buried...