Word: devoutness
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Walesa is a devout Roman Catholic who rarely misses morning Mass. A wood-and-silver crucifix is prominently displayed wherever he speaks. On his left lapel he always wears a badge depicting the Black Madonna of Czestochowa, the revered symbol of Polish nationalism. He wrote a widely reproduced prayer that begins, "Virgin Mary, I come to you in the total modesty of my heart...
...Thomas Aquinas, smashed the robot to pieces because he considered it demonic. The Swiss alchemist Paracelsus, who was himself considered rather demonic, gave lectures on the creation of a homunculus and even offered a recipe of ingredients, including human blood and putrefied semen. In 16th century Prague, too, the devout Rabbi Judah Loew was reported to have created out of clay a giant robot known as a golem. This figure, which came to life when a tablet with a divine name, shem, was placed in its mouth, was supposed to protect the Jews from persecution, but some accounts claim that...
...principal beneficiary has been Prime Minister Raja'i, a devout Muslim and dedicated Khomeini follower. His more secular, more moderate rival, President Abolhassan Banisadr, seems increasingly isolated. It was to Raja'i, not Banisadr, that President Carter addressed the first official U.S. response to the Majlis vote. And it was Raja'i who, in his fire-and-brimstone speech at the embassy compound, demanded that the U.S. publicly and promptly accept the conditions of the Majlis...
...April 6 Movement is the most visible, and most violence-prone, member of a new constellation of radical opposition groups that is sometimes called the Third Force, because it is both anti-Marcos and antiCommunist. The Third Force is composed mainly of middle-class Filipinos, many of them devout Catholics, who believe that the violent overthrow of Marcos' eight-year-old martial law regime is morally justified. Their reasoning: corruption and rigged elections have made peaceful opposition futile...
...message Pérez Esquivel preaches is simple. A devout Roman Catholic, a sculptor and onetime professor of art and art history, he gave up his academic career in 1974 to found and head Argentina's Servicio Pazy Justicia (Peace and Justice Service). The group is dedicated to human rights throughout Latin America and to what Pe>ez Esquivel describes as "both spiritual and moral support, and practical aid for those who suffer." Specifically, that means organizing help for the needy in the continent's sprawling slums and its impoverished countryside. A disciple of Mahatma Gandhi...