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...remember that while the value of a number in Arabic numerals depends on its position (e.g., 2 in 126 is worth 20), an X, V, L or C is still ten, five, 50 or 100 no matter where it appears. Thus, in finding the answer to "What is XXVIII multiplied by XII?", a Roman might have multiplied from left to right the top number by each numeral in the bottom number. Taking X (10) times XXVIII, he would get 20X5, ten Vs and 30 Is, which would become CCLXXX. After adding XXVIII and XXVIII to this, he would get CCLXXXXXXXV...
Christ was buried at night, so the Omaha mortician who put away the remains of Franklyn R. Rees after dark had excellent authority for his ceremony (TIME, April 27). Matthew records (XXVIII-57) that the "even was come" when Joseph of Arimathaea begged the body of Jesus from Pilate, wrapped it in a clean linen cloth and laid it in his own new tomb. John records (XIX-39) that Nicodemus came to the body of Jesus ''by night" with myrrh and aloes and only thereafter was it buried in the sepulchre...
...Eminence, John Cardinal Bonzano, carried himself in Chicago last week as the most solemn man alive. He was the "most eminent Lord Cardinal Legate," chief deputy of the Vicar of Christ, come to Chicago for the XXVIII Eucharistic Congress...
...Roman Catholics-Pius XI, Cardinal Bonzano, Cardinal Hayes, Bishop Quarter (first bishop of Chicago), Pére Marquette (French Jesuit missionary and explorer), St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. . . . It was a special train bearing great ones, holy ones of their Church from Manhattan to Chicago for the XXVIII Eucharistic Congress...
...XXVIII Eucharistic Congress comes to Chicago for a pentad of ecstasy the third week of June. Hundreds of thousands, at least a million, pilgrims will come. Lake boats and hotels and Pullman cars fitted with altars will transform themselves into ephemeral churches. Every Catholic family in the city has prepared itself to care for guests. So far as possible, foreigners (for thousands will come from abroad) will be housed with co-nationalists. The clergy will bunk in rectories?and in hotels. Honest innkeepers and food-purveyors have promised to maintain their regular charges...