Word: cassock
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours later Padre Vélaz got word that the plane was lost. Next day the wreckage was sighted in the high Andes, 55 miles to the east. His black cassock flying, Padre Vélaz clambered aboard a special plane. By nightfall, with 15 volunteers and a hardy baqueano (ranger),the padre was climbing up the craggy trail toward the lofty Páramo de Dos Torres...
...Father Walter B. Hogan, 37, a Jesuit priest from Philadelphia who arrived in the Philippines in 1933, became a teacher at Ateneo de Manila, a Jesuit college. He was professor of classics and the clarinet-toting mentor of the school band; the boys called him "Benny Goodman in a cassock." He also developed a deep interest in Filipino workers and Catholic trade unionism; in 1947 he established Ateneo's Institute of Social Order...
...sled in 1932, lean Father Henri arrived in King William Land, near the Magnetic Pole, with a portable altar and a bare minimum of supplies. Because of his rust-colored beard the Netsilik Eskimos called him Kai-i-o (The Red One); they were fascinated by his long black cassock, and asked whether they could make a tent...