Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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March of the Penitents. The Church of the Nazarenas was built around the wall, and the painting, set in a gorgeous silver mounting, was elevated like Mexico's Virgin of Guadalupe for all to see. Each year the image of Our Lord of Miracles was borne in procession on visits to other Lima churches. The poorer classes made the festivity their own, and a brotherhood grew up, now numbering some 3,000, to organize the procession and above all, to carry the heavy litter with Our Lord of Miracles...
Contents: a devout essay in praise of the Virgin Mary; a comparison of the two worlds represented by Rockefeller Center and its neighbor, St. Patrick's Cathedral; an amateurish satire on the totalitarian state; two denunciations of modern materialism. A reactionary point of view pervades the sharp, provocative piece, "Are You Ashamed of the Gospel?", which pulls Catholics up short for yielding to liberal influences, for forgetting that separation of church & state, freedom of worship & speech, freedom of conscience on religious revelation have special and limited meanings for Catholics...
...Rebel. Davies, who calls himself a "theological radical," is under constant attack by both right & left. Reason: he openly rebels against any political or clerical form which he believes is fundamentally empty. He regards the Apostles' Creed as inadequate. Says he: "The Creed goes: '. . . Born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate. . . .' The comma between those two phrases is the most important part of Christ's life. After all, the life of Christ is something more than a punctuation mark...
Bishop Ruesga's own church in Calzada de Guadalupe, a starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...
...colonies of the species Eciton hamatum, he found 65,000 citizens or more. Most of them were workers, virgin females up to four-tenths of an inch long, which are denied the work of reproduction by the laws of the tribe. In the colony there are one completely developed female, the queen, two-thirds of an inch long, and a few harried winged males, often transients from other colonies. These the ferocious virgins coddle, and hold in captivity. In time of hunger they may also devour them...