Word: patriarch
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Inside, Roman Catholic Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Alberto Gori carries an olive-wood Christ child, accompanied by priests and deacons with swinging censers, acolytes and choir boys with long, flickering candles. The procession makes its way down into the Cave of the Nativity beneath the church, and there the figure of the Child is laid on a heap of straw in the place where tradition says the manger stood...
Change. As he threaded cheerfully among the guests at a birthday reception, urging his friends to take bites from a piece of cake, the remarkable fact was that he looked less than ever like a political patriarch or a wise (or wizened) old man. The years had marked him in many ways: the yellow is gone from his hair (indeed, most of the hair is gone); his face and neck are heavily lined. But the spring in his step, the athletic bearing and carriage, all were firm and strong, and the quick laugh and quicker grin marked a personality that...
This is the play where the old patriarch Captain Shotover suddenly begins "weirdly chanting...
From the day he took office, Pope John XXIII made clear that he was not going to change the warm, outgoing nature that had made him a beloved Patriarch of Venice. Last week one more story was added to the lore of the man who is already one of the best-loved Popes of modern times. He has given away his breviary-and to an Anglican. The recipient: Canon Donald Rea. vicar of the Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in Eye, Suffolk, and chairman of the Anglican Confraternity of Unity, founded in 1926 "to restore communion with...
...Pope's breviary arrived, with the markers where the Pope had finished his office on the feast of the Sacred Heart, and containing John's family memorial cards, including one for his father. On the cover of the black volumes were the arms of the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice: the breviary was bought...