Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...resigned to accept the suffragan bishopric of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Elected to succeed him was Rev. Granville Mercer Williams, handsome onetime metallurgical engineer. Last week Father Williams resigned a rectorship which he and his assistant Cowley Fathers had made noteworthy for nine years: St. Mary the Virgin in Manhattan...
...used quantities of incense and holy water, burned vigil lamps in its shrine of Our Lady, reserved the Blessed Sacrament (i.e., kept it on the altar for adoration), bought fancy vestments by the trunkful. It celebrated such rare feasts as the Falling Asleep of the Blessed Virgin. The church was perhaps the only one in the U. S. which maintained an orchestra (until 1938) for High Mass...
...Fortescue.* A story became current in the Episcopal Church: that New York's Cardinal Hayes, upon learning that a choirboy had fainted during a Mass, had said, "We'd better be careful; the first thing you know they'll be copying that at St. Mary the Virgin." Latest innovation at St. Mary's: the use of a vimpa, a scarf of thin white silk worn around the neck, by which a bishop's mitre and crozier are held, to protect them from the human touch...
Rumor in Manhattan last week was that, along with Father Williams, the other Cowley Fathers would leave St. Mary the Virgin, presumably taking the vimpa with them. In Boston next week Father Williams is to be an attending presbyter at the consecration of his predecessor, Bishop-elect Burton. At this service no vimpas will be used: the consecrator will be the Presiding Bishop of the Church, Henry' St. George Tucker, who has never worn a cope, much less a mitre...
Ernest White, noted organist of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York, will give a recital of the works of modern composers at the Germanic Museum this evening at 8:15 o'clock...