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Word: veni (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...manner in which you tie the Veni Creator Spiritus with I Corinthians 1: 20 in your cover story "In Search of a Pope" [Aug. 21] is inspirational. I was moved each time I read that paragraph, and I read it more than once. Imagine that: the spirit speaking through TIME! I can only say amen, and amen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 11, 1978 | 9/11/1978 | See Source »

...hours later, having replaced the white miters with red birettas, the Cardinals reassembled to begin making that decision. Promptly at 4:30 on Friday afternoon, Jean Cardinal Villot, Camerlengo (Chamberlain) of the vacant Holy See, gave a signal and the 70-member Sistine Chapel choir started to sing Veni Creator Spiritus (Come Holy Spirit). The Cardinals then filed into the Sistine Chapel. There, beneath Michelangelo's great fresco The Last Judgment, they seated themselves on facing rows of plain chairs at twelve long tables. There were too many Cardinals this time to accommodate them with the traditional canopied velvet thrones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: A Swift, Stunning Choice | 9/4/1978 | See Source »

...betting parlors of London and the Vaticanologists in the trattorie of Rome cannot predict. Only one outside influence will be able to sway the Cardinal electors once they are sealed into their election quarters. Just before they vote for the first time, the Cardinals will recite the Veni Creator Spiritus: "Come, Holy Spirit, and from heaven direct on man the rays of your light..." The touch of the divine, bringing tantalizing possibilities, may once again make foolish the wisdom of the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Search of a Pope | 8/21/1978 | See Source »

...Suarez can report of the victory to the people of Spain: "Veni. vidi, vici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 18, 1977 | 7/18/1977 | See Source »

...said, "Veni, vidi, vici...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Aug. 2, 1976 | 8/2/1976 | See Source »

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