Word: conventions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...begun by Archbishop Gaetano Bedini, who visited the U.S. in 1853-54 as special papal legate. Undeterred by an assassination plot hatched by anti-Catholic fanatics during his U.S. tour, Bedini asked the Holy See to furnish land and buildings, U.S. bishops to provide funds. Quartered in a converted convent on Via dell'Umilta (Humility Street), the school opened hopefully in 1859 with twelve students from seven states (three of the twelve later became archbishops). Pope Pius IX came himself for Mass, Communion and breakfast (including ice cream and punch); delighted students gave three rousing cheers for George Washington...
...Story. A startlingly beautiful though spiritually slight study of convent life, with Audrey Hepburn as the Roman Catholic nun whose choice between love of God and love of mankind comes hard...
...Hailstorm. In 1482, after eight years of training, the young friar was appointed lecturer to the Dominican Convent of San Marco in Florence. The pulpit orator whose thundering was to keep a city in terror, and who seldom spoke to fewer than 15,000 people in his great years, wrote of his beginnings: "I had neither voice, vigour, nor talent for preaching; indeed, my sermons bored everyone...
...from public moral attitude-center on indecency, concentrated coverage of crime, advocacy of birth control, and offense to the clergy. Dublin's biggest daily, the Irish Independent, built its circulation (171,728) on the boast that it could be read by the oldest mother superior in the smallest convent in Ireland without bringing a blush to her cheeks...
...Sing Sing Prison guard and principal keeper (1926-41), who ruled his charges with a celebrated iron fist, once nipped a revolt by a right to the jaw of the ringleader that knocked him, legend says, halfway across the prison courtyard, kept Sing Sing quiet as a convent during the turbulent gangbuster era between world wars while prisons elsewhere often ran amuck; of a stroke; in North Tarrytown...