Word: sainthood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hard to see why Bryant is a cherished man, but he is not a candidate for sainthood. "All of the other schools were doing it, so we did it too," he openly confesses his Texas A&M recruiting sins, the usual ones involving cash and cars. While the infamous Junction, Texas, training camp of 1954 is a fond piece of his fable to some, Bryant is not proud of running 69 of 96 Aggie football players off the team. The brutal 110° F heat was not the only brutality. "It was terrible," he says. "All my life...
Tsar Nicholas II, the last emperor of Russia, would seem to some an unlikely candidate for sainthood. He consulted faith healers, intervened highhandedly in church affairs and ruled with a sublime ineffectiveness that helped pave the way for the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. But last week in New York City, Tsar Nicholas, his wife Alexandra, their son and four daughters, all murdered in 1918 by the Bolsheviks, became saints. In an unprecedented ceremony of glorification, they, along with some 30,000 other Russian Orthodox Christians killed by the Soviets, were named "martyrs" and canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia...
Orthodox theology stresses martyrdom as a sign of holiness in a potential saint. Determination of sainthood is a much less formal matter than in the Roman Catholic Church, where a lengthy, legalistic procedure emphasizes an exemplary moral life and the performance of miracles after death. An Orthodox candidate need only have suffered and died for the faith, and the Orthodox communion of saints includes hundreds of thousands of such martyrs...
...this which prompts her to goto the movies. In the warm, popcorn-smelling dark of a movie theater her mission is always real. An auto da fe at the entrance to the Harvard MTA station seems not out of the question. All that stands between her and sainthood is daylight
...play begins sparely as the executioner, drolly played by Roy Cooper, mundanely outlines his craft and dis plays an austere professionalism. Mary (Roberta Maxwell) is listening for heavenly voices that will validate her martyrdom and self-proclaimed sainthood...