Word: patriarch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family man. Particularly devoted to his daughter Anne (who was born sickly and died in 1948), he and Madame de Gaulle have founded in her memory an institution for retarded children. At the 14-room house in Colombey, where he still spends his weekends, he loves to play the patriarch of the clan, gathering about him his naval officer son Philippe, his daughter Elizabeth (married to an army officer), his three grandchildren, and as many as possible of his 17 nieces and nephews and innumerable grandnieces and grandnephews. To the children, he is benign, loving "Uncle Charles...
Giovanni Urbani, 58, was appointed by Pope John to succeed him as Patriarch of Venice-the first native Venetian to be made patriarch in 150 years. He served as an artilleryman in World War I, though he was noted more for praising the Lord than passing the ammunition, and he tirelessly organized seminars and study groups for the soldiers. Later, Urbani became top national ecclesiastical adviser to the Catholic Action movement, traveled all over Italy organizing parish priests in a grass-roots light against Communism. In 1955 he was made Bishop of Verona, with the personal title of archbishop...
...white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
Next the archbishops were locked into the Cathedral of Mariameyeh to vote on one of the three top candidates. Within 30 minutes, the result was announced: Tripoli's Archbishop Abu Rajaili became Patriarch Theodosios...
...moderate, gentle man with seven languages at his command, the Beirut-born patriarch is expected to try to keep his church out of politics, though the Russians may be too tough for him. Said one knowing Lebanese last week: "I bet they've started work on that old man already. And it's doubtful that he'll be able to know everything that's going on in the patriarchate. Anyway, it won't be too long before the Russians have another crack at getting their...