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Veronica's Veil, performed at St. Joseph's Auditorium, was written by Father Bernardine, Passionist. It tells how Christ paused on His way to Calvary, dried His face on Veronica's veil, left His features impressed on it.* Veronica took the veil to Rome, heading a band of Christians. Veronica's Veil is performed by two alternating casts of 150 amateur players, many of whom have played various parts from the beginning. One of the Veronicas, plump Louise Monaco, parish secretary, started out 19 years ago as a child actress. A salesman named Leonard Mathews...
...Venerated as a holy relic, the reputed original veil is annually exhibited in St. Peter's in Rome during Holy Week...
...Abolition of the Califate (Islamic Papacy) and perpetual banishment from Turkey of all members of the once royal and spiritual House of Osman. 1925-Turkish men coerced to wear the hat instead of the fez, Turkish women encouraged to drop the veil. (To pious males hat-wearing caused spiritual agony, since the brim of the hat prevented them from touching their foreheads to the floor in prayer and Islamic ritual demands that one pray covered...
...only two guards armed to watch over the 38 military prisoners now incarcerated on Alcatraz. Since 1858, when Alcatraz first became a military prison, only one convict has escaped. He dressed himself in mourning garments which he stole from the widow of a prison officer and, pulling a black veil over his face, got himself ferried to the mainland on the quartermaster's boat...
Embellished by startling success in World Series predications, Fates once more consent to breathe aside veil that covers future. Gazing into void I see esteemed friend John Harvard once more making a Lane through all opposition and Lockeing the score with a Well-made pass. Wildcats realize this, for New Hampshire Vaughnteth not itself, nor doth it expect to run Wilde. They may even be Moody at the end of the game, as is won't be a Haphey day if their end of the score is Leen. Humbly suggest Harvard will keep New Hampshire side of scoreboard pure White...