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...opening scene is York, excommunicated Queen shortly after Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth. After this step it becomes increasingly difficult and dangerous to profess the Roman Catholic faith in England. "Design for a Stained Glass Window" deals with the effects of this pressure on the convictions of several people in the ten years covered by the play's action. Robin Flemming, a tradesman of York, forswears Catholicism and eventually becomes Earl of Hartford a favorite of Elizabeth. His partner, John Clitherow, a prosperous Anglican merchant, wished to leave others alone and to he left alone, but this turns...
...Holiness Pope Pius XII lifted a gold-encrusted hammer and struck it three times against the Holy Door of St. Peter...
...Pope Pius XII (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC). The opening of Holy Year from Rome...
When he was a child, Francis Forgione was noted among the villagers of Pietrelcina, Italy for his piety. No one was surprised when he became a Capuchin monk and in due time was ordained a priest under the name Padre Pio-Father Pius. He developed tuberculosis, but continued his priestly duties, though he sometimes fell into ecstatic trances while saying Mass. During one trance, in 1918, Padre Pio collapsed and had to be carried unconscious from the church. Those who examined him found bleeding wounds in his hands and feet and a wound in his side "such as produced...
...cover of TIME [instead of a Man of the Year], I would like to nominate Pope Pius XII as Man of the Half-Century...