Word: virescit
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...Look About You." Monte Cassino's abbot, white-haired Ildefonso Rea, last week recalled that the Abbey's motto is succisa virescit (cut down, it grows again). He said quietly: "This monastery was founded in the 6th Century. Four times* it has been destroyed, and every time, no matter how long it took, Monte Cassino has risen again. Nature shows us the urgent will to live. Look about you. Half-burned tree trunks are sprouting fresh and vigorous shoots...
...Succisa Virescit." Said the German radio: "Outrage." For two days Nazi communiques flatly stated that there had been no German soldiers within the abbey or in its immediate vicinity. Said Field Marshal Albert Kesselring: "I have only the deepest contempt for the cynical mendacity and sanctimonious pictures with which the Anglo-Saxon Commands now attempt to make me responsible for their acts...
...monastery in good faith that its destruction had been necessary. Said Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore: "Every Catholic throughout the world will understand." Wrote the Rt. Rev. Stephen Schappler, Abbott of Conception Abbey at Conception, Mo.: "True to the device on her coat of arms, Succisa Virescit (when cut down, it grows again), the Abbey of Abbeys will have a rebirth. For that right our own boys are giving their all. Benedictines the world over are grateful to them...
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