Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Roman Catholics felt more and more that her peculiar relation to the Godhead fitted her especially as a sort of kindly mother before whom unworthy sinners might lay their prayers with the best hopes of a successful intervention with the "remote and awful Godhead." In early times, St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople called her "the only bridge of God to man." Even John Wyclif, pre-Reformation "heretic" said: "It seems impossible to me that we should obtain the reward of heaven without the help of Mary." James, Cardinal Gibbons, in modern times wrote: "After our Lord Jesus Christ...
...Individual Soviet citizens have gone to China and enlisted in the Chinese armies just as English volunteers joined the Boers and as Lord Byron fought for Greece. . . . England protests against the aid which we gave the striking coal miners, but the British sent money here for the Patriarch Tikhon. Great Britain must realize that a break with us means a break with one-sixth of the world...
Those who have long urged this course upon Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) are headed by the 90-year-old Cardinal Bishop Vincenzo Vannutelli, patriarch of the Sacred College. A venerable radical, he has pointed out that 37 Cardinals for Italy and only 30 more for the remainder of the Earth is a curious proportion. Canada, Australia and Ireland have had no Cardinals since the deaths of their last representatives in the Sacred College. The Americas have but five Cardinals?the U. S. four,* South America one.? England has only two.** Belgium desires a successor...
Presenting "The Patriarch," a play written by Boyd Smith, Professor George Pierce Baker '87 formally opened the new Yale University Theatre last week...
...four people to form the audience; by the end of the year more than three hundred were active followers of the temporary 47 Workshop. For the five opening performances on Friday, Saturday and Monday over five thousand people from the theatre and interested world at large were invited. The "Patriarch," a West Virginia mountain tragedy, by Boyd M. Smith, who was with Professor Baker at Harvard, was chosen for the opening; and although this is not the place for a discussion of the play, it is pleasing to note that it was bought for New York production...