Word: upper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because one church was not enough to honor the meekest of medieval men, the gothic builders of Assisi built two churches to St. Francis, one on top of the other. Princess Giovanna decreed last week that her marriage should take place not in the larger, airier upper church, but in the lower, holier one beneath, whose high altar covers the saint's tomb...
...wedding procession was to form inside the upper church, march out the west door and up a grassy hill, then round the corner down through the colonnaded, cobblestoned pilgrim's courtyard to the portal of the lower church. Two hundred young girls of Assisi (practically every available one) were named last week "attendants of the Princess," received white satin dresses donated by her. Soldiers, Fascist militia, torch bearers were told off to line...
...that he needs for the final hanging of the bells, and when the proper supports have been installed in the tower, the bells, and when the proper supports of the carillon bells will be hung in the lower portion of the tower, a few will be placed in the upper part...
...forms the ground floor of the main church. What was to have been the main floor has a great semicircular well cut into it around the high altar which rests on the basement floor and rises through the well. Thus the sanctuary is made visible to worshipers on both upper and lower levels and to those in the single balcony which extends around three sides of the upper level...
...They returned to Manhattan, she to set up a household, he to be ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church. Young, bold and persuasive, that same summer he organized for his pastorate the Church of the Atonement, now called Church of Our Savior's Atonement, important Lutheran congregation in upper Manhattan. Seven years ago Mrs. Knubel died. After two years' grief he married Jennie C. Christ of Manhattan. Presidency of the United Lutheran Church caused him to drop pastorate. Now he commutes daily from his New Rochelle home to his Manhattan office off Fifth Avenue, whither the half-dozen...