Word: fastedness
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For the next five years the young priest fasted and prayed incessantly. But the deeper he sank into religious experience, the less able he was to have any other experience. Often he could not even recognize the people around him. In his fellow monks he saw saints and martyrs; in...
The 75 leaders, charged with disorderly conduct and creating a disturbance, were locked up in four of the Albany area jails. Some fasted-perhaps after glancing at the prison fare of cornbread, beans, greens and fat back. By week's end, all but 19 ministers were released on $200...
Martin de Porres' private life was austere. He never ate meat, fasted completely from Holy Thursday until noon on Easter. In imitation of St. Dominic, he lashed himself three times nightly with a whip whose hooked ends were weighted with iron. Once, when the convent fell into debt, he...
Before he announced last month that he would run as a Republican candidate in Michigan's 1962 gubernatorial race. George Romney fasted and prayed for 24 hours for divine guidance. His act of faith called attention to the fact that Romney, a remarkably successful and personable industrialist and community...
The Real Issue. Romney's Mormonism became an open issue in Michigan when he fasted and prayed before announcing for the governorship. Cried Gus Scholle, president of Michigan's A.F.L.C.I.O.: "This business of trying to put on an act of having a pipeline to God in order to...