Word: syriac
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...later went to the University there. He also studied in England and Germany. When he was 14 he decided to become an Orientalist, ordered an Arabic grammar from an astounded bookseller, and rose an hour early every morning to plough through Arabic verbs. Then he plunged eagerly into Hebrew, Syriac, Persian, Chinese. His career as an Orientalist came to an end when his teachers wanted him to specialize. "All my life I have avoided specialization," says Henry Sigerist. He went into science, then medicine, and practiced obstetrics, then studied experimental pharmacology...
Last week in Our Lady of Lebanon Church in Brooklyn, N. Y. Catholic worshippers heard Mass sung in Old Syriac or Aramaic, the language Christ supposedly spoke, by a bearded prelate who looked more Jewish than Catholic. He was Most Rev. Cyril George Dallal. 60, Archbishop of Mosul, head of the Syrian Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, shepherd of 90,000 Christians who live among the 1,000,000 Mohammedans of Iraq. He had just arrived in the U. S., to tour cities in which live Syrian Catholics. How many such there are, no U. S. prelate seemed...
...Bound together in all matters of faith and by mutual recognition of the Pope as Christ's Vicar on Earth, they are: Ambrosian (Milan), Mozarabic (Spain), Chaldean, Malabar, Coptic, Abyssinian, Pure Syriac, Armenian, Maronite, Pure Greek, Italo-Greek, Georgian, Melkite, Bulgarian, Serbian, Rumanian, Russian, Ruthenian...