Word: virgines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tragically refined pre-War young woman at a party in Vienna Provincial; and Queen of Heaven, for which Miss Enters recently got into the bad books of the Roman Catholic bishop of Montana. having quoted, as a program note, Henry Adams' remark that in the 12th Century the Virgin Mary was more popular than...
...church so that the devout may come in and make their nine devotions consecutively over a period of time. Catholics believe that these mass novenas are more potent than private ones. In Chicago last January a perpetual novena, the only one in the U. S. devoted to the Virgin Mary in her special aspect of "Our Sorrowful Mother," was begun at Our Lady of Sorrows Church. By last week, with 16,500 Catholics attending twelve novena services every Friday, this novena was one of the best attended in the U. S., so successful that other Catholic churches were making ready...
...Sorrows, a monastery and two parochial schools, is Very Rev. James R. Keane, 35. Asked last week to account for the religious fervor which not only fills his church (capacity 1,1001 but lines up the faithful in queues outside, Father Keane replied: "It's the Blessed Virgin." From approved Catholic sources, Father Keane compiled a novena service for Our Sorrowful Mother, which involves congregational singing, congregational prayers and a Via Matris (Way of the Mother)-in which the worshipers traverse a circuit of seven Stations of the Cross representing the seven sorrows of the Virgin.* The Via Matris...
...Padre" Abbate's people believe that he was not born of mortal parents but formed from "the ashes of Jesus Christ." Once he crowned the small daughter of one of his Italian-born parishioners, Mrs. Grace Ippolita, as "the Virgin Mary," instructing his followers to worship her. In 1923 the "Celestial Messenger" was convicted of ravishing a small girl, was adjudged insane. Convicted later of two more attacks, Abbate was occasionally in jail but always turned loose because of his original insanity. In the Elgin State Hospital (Illinois), where he spent two years, clad in clerical garb, Abbate became...
...Angel, "a quiet suburb of Mexico City." Another work bound to attract attention is that of "Devotees at the Capilla del Pocito," which was taken at a spring in Guadalupe. Here, tradition holds that a spring with miraculous healing powers burst from beneath the feet of the Virgin of Guadalupe about...