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Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form...
...just the other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
...first American commander in history ever denied the right to fight to win. Because the U.S. failed to drive the Communists out of Korea, "Red China promptly was accepted as the military colossus of the East. Korea was left ravished and divided. Indo-China was partitioned by the sword. Tibet was taken almost on demand. Other Asian nations began to tremble toward neutralism...
...Indian maharajas and Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. In 1952 the company turned out a special order of $8,214.15 worth of crockery for Marshal Tito's wedding. Before Eisenhower left Berlin in 1948, his staff gave him a 130-piece Rosenthal set inscribed with the flaming-sword insignia of SHAEF. Not to be outdone by Western capitalists, Soviet Ambassador Valerian Zorin in Bonn last week ordered an $800 Rosenthal dinner service-the company's biggest Red china sale since Tito's nuptials...
...Gold Lion of the House of Nassau, Belgium's Order of Leopold, France's Legion of Honor, Italy's Order of Merit, the Vatican's Order of Pius IX, Spain's Order of Isabella the Catholic, Portugal's Order of the Tower and Sword...