Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...illustrate the Eastern sources of this art, there are included a Coptic book, the "Eulogies of the Virgin," a Persian on natural history interspersed with medicine, and a Greek, believed to have been written by the emperor's scribes in Constantinople. The story then begins with the first revival of the arts under Charlemagne, shown in the ancient Rheims Gospel and the "Golden Latin Gospels, called "of Henry the Eighth." Both being of the ninth century, are in Byzantine style, the latter all in letters of burnished gold on purple vellum, is among the most beautiful and important documents here...
...believe in the continued, known existence of Christ's tomb, the manger in which he was laid at Bethlehem and the very hillside on which the shepherds slept that night. But it was downright "fantastic" to be told by a Franciscan in "Mary's house" that "the Virgin stood at this pillar, and Gabriel at that pillar when he announced to her that she would be mother of the Savior...
...Thomas, Virgin Islands, May 12--Thousands attended a mass demonstration in the heart of St. Thomas today, demanding the removal of Governor Paul M. Pearson...
...Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition, is the Church's most famed miracle ground. This spot Pope Pius XI chose for ceremonies bringing to an end last week the two-year period...
...spring long ago North European pagans used taboos to bring the gods' favor on their crops. When the green shoots showed, they celebrated the festival of Eostre. Meantime along the Mediterranean dark followers of Attis, Isis, Osiris, Mithras worshiped a god who was born of a virgin and one who died and rose from the dead...