Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...marriage and five children, who are all in Miami now with their mother. "During the fight against Batista we split the family up, some in one house, some in another. We weren't afraid. Also I have one brother, and I lost one brother, and then I have a sister, who is in Cuba...
...lactation record for goats was announced, and the standard-shatterer was no ordinary goatnik but a good old Flat Rock (N.C.) nanny. Her breeder: a University of Chicago Phi Bete ('04) now specializing in capralogy, Lillian Steichen Sandburg, 78, sister of Photographer Edward Steichen and wife (since 1908) of Poet-Lincoln Lord Carl Sandburg. The record: 191 Ibs. of butterfat, 5,750 Ibs. of milk in a 305-day period...
...Pope Pius VII consigned the bones to the care of a priest, Don Francis di Lucia, who had them enshrined in the church of Mugnano del Cardinale near Naples, where they promptly began to produce a flood of miracles and special favors. A Neapolitan nun named Sister Mary Louisa of Jesus claimed to have received a series of revelations about Philomena's life and martyrdom, on the basis of which Don Francis di Lucia compiled a "biography" of the "saint." As a martyr, her formal canonization was unnecessary, but in 1837 Pope Gregory XVI authorized her public veneration...
...Crying All Day." Philomena's desanctification is causing widespread consternation this week-Catholic girls found themselves greeted with "Hello, No-name." "I've been crying all day," said Sister Marie Helene of Mother Seton Sisters of Charity in Greensburg, Pa., who has devoted 45 years to St. Philomena's cause, has written a book about her (St. Philomena, Powerful with God), and raised $10,000 to build a shrine to Philomena on the campus of Greensburg's Seton Hill College...
Laymen might worry about misaddressed prayers, but churchmen know that there is no such thing as a dead-letter office in heaven. For Sister Marie Helene and all those whose prayers have risen to Philomena through the years, there is some comfort in the closing words on the "saint" in the current edition (1956) of Butler's Lives of the Saints: "We do not know certainly whether she was in fact named Philomena in her earthly life, whether she was a martyr, whether her relics now rest at Mugnano or in some place unknown. And these questions are only...