Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...France, too, a miracle was reported. Last week General Gaston de Sonis (1825-87), devout Catholic, daring soldier, veteran of African campaigns and of the War of 1870, was being considered as a candidate for beatification. The ecclesiastical tribunal which sat on his case ordered disinterment of his body. When the body was removed last week from its coffin in the crypt of Loigny Church, where it had lain since 1887, it was reported to be in a "miraculous" state of preservation?no rigor mortis, hair and skin "as natural as in life." General de Sonis Was beatified...
...quiet study in the Paris Latin Quarter not far from the grey, ornate pile of the Church of Saint Sulpice, newsgatherers waited last week for Father Jean Verdier, a modest little priest who for years has guided the thoughts and prepared the minds of hundreds of young women preparing to take the veil at the novitiate school of St. Sulpice...
Four other Cardinals were named by Pope Pius XI last week to fill some of the 13 vacancies in the Sacred College: Mgr. Emanuel Gonzales Cerejeira, to be Patriarch of Lisbon; Mgr. Luigi Lavitrano, to be Archbishop of Palermo; Mgr. Carlo Minoretti, to be Archbishop of Genoa; Mgr. Joseph MacCrory to be Primate of Ireland...
...fortnight before Christmas. To Church diplomats the important fact was that of the five new Cardinals, only two were Italians. The traditional balance between Italian and non-Italian Cardinals in the Sacred College which for centuries has assured the election of an Italian Pope was sadly askew, standing last week: Italians, 29; non-Italians, 33. As there are still eight vacancies, another consistory will probably soon be held, more Cardinals appointed. But according to tradition at least four seats in the College of Cardinals must remain unfilled...
...Turk, the Balfour Declaration (1917) seemed to recognize Jewish rights to at least a share in the modern Canaan. But under the rule of the British mandate both Jew and Arab were irked. Growing bad feeling culminated in August with the Arab anti-Jewish riots in Palestine. Last week Dr. Judah Leon Magnes, Chancellor of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, sought to pour more oil on the subsiding waters of Palestine. Said he: ''Palestine can never be a Jewish national home. It will always be an international home for Jews, Christians and Arabs alike." Added Dr. Magnes: Jews...