Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
Sanchez' explanation was as muddled as his faith. When out of work a few years ago, he had prayed to the Virgin for assistance, and landed a fine job with a U.S. radio crew on the Galapagos Islands. After the yanquis left, hard times came back. He called on the Virgin to help him win the national lottery, but no such miracle took place. Said Sanchez: "From that day I felt in my heart hate and vengeance for the Virgin." He determined to steal the wooden image, and burn...
...preaching of the God of Greek metaphysics, the First Cause, impassible, an abstract, not a living God . . . Such a God is not one who can easily be prayed to, and that is why the Roman Catholic laity have turned for their devotions inordinately to creatures-to the Blessed Virgin and the Saints. Similarly, I disagree with the rationalist Scholastic interpretation of the soul and of the nature of man, of the act of faith and the rigid distinction between the natural and the supernatural...
...poem is concerned with the variously-named demigod or "spirit of the year"-e.g., Zeus, son of Rhea . . . who in early European religious theory was at first wholly subject to his all-powerful variously-named Virgin Mother. As Europë, "Broad-face" (her full-moon title), she named this...
...read through a fine collection of 25 cent pocket books, found in another corner of the room; they had titles like "Fifi' or "The Impatient Virgin." And every day brought the 6:30 thermometer. It grew increasingly tough. Smith pattered around the ward, suggesting that tottering arrivals be "placed immediately in bed." He frequently curled up in his covers and moaned "morphine, morphine,' in a pained-wracked voice. He waggled his fingers at feverish flu-victims and solemnly pronounced "Leprosy." He played cards until he found he knew all the cards from the back. He read patients each others fever...