Word: urszula
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...leading to the altar and a gigantic reproduction of the icon of the Black Madonna. With the timing of a seasoned performer, he paused halfway to raise both arms in a gesture of blessing. Then the Pope joined 20 bishops in golden robes in a solemn ceremony beatifying Sister Urszula Ledochowska, a Polish educator who organized Catholic schools before World War I. As the Pope conferred on Sister Urszula the title "blessed," the next-to-last step in the arduous path to sainthood, a life-size portrait of the nun in simple gray habit was unveiled...
...such terms did the defense attorney for Irvin C. Scarbeck, 41, a former U.S. embassy official in Poland, describe his client last week. Scarbeck's inner softness led him to lift thin, black-haired Urszula Discher, 22, "up from the gutter," take her as his mistress and then protect her from public disclosure by feeding secrets to Communist agents who had photographed them in bed together...
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