Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...candles in church is older than the church itself. Liturgical candles are traditionally of beeswax, for bees were once supposed to be virgin. The great paschal candle typifies Christ's flesh, its wick His soul, its flame the all-absorbing Divinity. On Candlemas Day (Feast of the Purification, Feb. 2) there is a special ceremony for blessing candles. A burning candle is placed in the hand of a person at baptism, and as Death comes...
...with extracurricular zeal. Queen Balkis, for her part, is drumming the floor of her rocking camel-litter with her heels, impatient to arrive. The purpose of her pilgrimage is both political and personal. In the land of Sheba, dynastic laws require that rulership repose exclusively in the hands of virgins. Hitherto the ruling virgins had propagated their royal race by divine miracle-a newborn babe would be discovered in the temple by the priests, and at the same time the virgin breasts of the queen would miraculously begin to give milk. But no such luck befell Balkis, even though...
...little placitá of San José. Here he was treated as an ordinary mortal, which meant meagrely. Puzzled, he asked the San José sacristan's advice, was told that the natives had no use for his sermons, which praised San Antonio, San Francisco, the Virgin. Jesus, all of whom meant nothing to them. Why not praise their patron, San José? At his next visit Padre Martinez propped an image of San José in the pulpit, stood on the floor himself. While the sacristan circulated the money-box among the congregation, the Padre exhorted them...
...generations the youngest son of the house of Enna has served the Church, this boy in the feathered cap only laughs at family tradition and says he was never made to be a priest. But one day, when the boy Rochus is in danger, his mother vows to the Virgin that she will make him a priest. Soon after this she dies; and Rochus feels obliged to redeem her pledge. Perplexed and without faith, he journeys to Rome. He feels there the overpowering force of the Catholic Church to the extent of pledging his life to her service, though...
...Chamber of Commerce of St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands submitted to the U. S. State Department last week resolutions to invite Ex-Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has been advised by his physician that the Doom climate is too severe, to spend his remaining years on the Virgin Islands...