Word: wafers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...From hostia (victim). The Host is a wheat wafer which, according to Catholic belief, has become the actual body and blood of Christ, Victim of Sacrifice...
...that illustrated it, they angrily suppressed that issue of the Junior Red Cross News, and all Junior Red Cross activities in Somerville.* The pen-&-ink drawing of Rafael, Juanita and the priest was captioned: "Rafael and Juanita stood before the priest, who murmured a blessing and placed a barley wafer in Juanita's mouth." The Somerville schoolmen called this "sacrilegious . . . offensive . . . un-American . . . ridiculing the great central act of worship of a great religious denomination." Other Massachusetts cities-Cambridge, Lowell, Lawrence, Everett, Fall River-joined in the ban, were followed by New York City...
...Very Rev. William Coleman Nevils, Jesuit president of Georgetown University, found nothing harmful in the drawing, and a Catholic editor of the Junior Red Cross News pointed out that a Spanish parish priest might very well add "such homely touches" as giving a barley wafer (not a consecrated wheat wafer) to an animal. St. Anthony the Abbot is the patron of domestic animals as well as of hospitallers, basket-makers, butchers, gravediggers. On his feast, Jan. 17, the Italian and Spanish faithful may bring their animals to be blessed with a special prayer and be sprinkled with holy water...
...question interesting the Bavarian church is: is it true, as claimed, that Therese Neumann has taken no substantial food since 1926. and nothing but a daily Holy Communion wafer since 1927? Only once since then has Fraulein Neumann submitted to examination, and then by four nuns and a physician who it is admitted may well have been prejudiced in her favor. It became known last fortnight that the Bavarian Bishops' Conference had asked Therese Neumann's father to permit an examination for a month or six weeks. The bishops were interested in the fast alone...
...point out to the chemists of the world that there is an excellent field for them in the search for a non-hydrous glue." Mechanical-minded Professor Koegel of the Karlsruhe Technical High School came forward with a new method of registering the authenticity of paintings: two wafer-thin sections are to be sawed from a steel cable, one inlaid in the painting, the other deposited in a central identification office. Microphotography will identify the adjacent surfaces of the cable...