Word: devoutness
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...Mother of God has always been a transcendent inspiration in the world of Art. . . . From the beginning, Christian art has been the handmaiden of the Faith. In the crude and devout symbols of the Catacombs we find the beginnings of that astonishing religious art which flowered so splendidly in the religious consummation of the centuries we call medieval...
Jacques Anatole Thibault was born on the Quai Malaquais, brought up on the Quai Voltaire. "No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais." His father was a royalist, a bookseller, a devout Catholic. The father's comrades in the guard of Charles X used to call him "le père France." The name stuck to him and was inherited by the son who has made it famous...
...crypt of St. Peter's, a tomb lay covered with flowers. Heavy candles diffused their ethereal light, revealing black-draped and kneeling figures, bent in devout prayer. A slight murmur of subdued voices disturbed the restful silence. Occasionally, the firm voice of a prelate would rise above the murmur as he pronounced a benediction, or sometimes low, sad chants would break the stillness. Close to the tomb were two elderly sisters of the dead, absorbed in reciting the Ave Maria, as they tremblingly counted their beads. All that long day, figures shuffled in and shuffled out of the crypt...
...other morning, and to see the motion picture of his experiments. What would she have to say to him, I wonder; for he is a quiet, shy, slight Englishman, just as shy and as quiet as is she, and he claims to be a devout advocate of World Peace, advocating fighting war with its own instruments. Yet when I had seen two reels of his dreams, there seemed nothing to say. He went out of the room, and none of the newspaper people who had chanced to see the picture spoke to him. There was absolutely nothing...
Benito's father was a freethinker of the most virulent, nationalistic, antiPapal sort. Benito was not baptized. His mother was devout. In his Diary of the War, Benito reminisces as follows...