The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.
This analogy is very strong and eye opening to the fact that there are people who idolize sports and put it so high in their life
Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrests. Sportsriots have become commonplace, but the one in '55 was like noother because one of its central figures, Maurice Richard, waslike no other hockey player.
Nowadays there are sports riots all the time when a team wins a big game but they never end up as violent as the '55 riots
It’s March 13, 1955. The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night. This is their 14th and final meeting of the regular season, plenty of games to enflame the animosity between the two teams, but what’s about to happen is even more personal. Laycoe, the Bruins forward had nailed Richard in the first period. He served two minutes for charging. But the hit lit the fuse of Richard’s infamous temper.
They have competed so many times it has built such tension in their competition it makes their meetings even more satisfying
Out on the street, the largest riot since Conscription was passed in 1944 (bringing in the draft for the final year of the Second World War) broke out along a seven-block length of Rue Ste. Catherine, featuring overturned cars, smashed windows, a shot fired from somewhere and 137 arrests.
Taking action was a very strong statement made by the authorities to make arrests.
"A dollar!"
It is very interesting how cheap this is compared now just this year was the lowest prices for pigs in 20 years and they were sold for $30-$60 significantly higher than $1
he snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun was powerless to send warmth through the gray clouds, and the heavy spring rains were yet to come. This chill and universal white, the humbleness of the wooden church and the wooden houses scattered along the road, the gloomy forest edging so close that it seemed to threaten, these all spoke of a harsh existence in a stern land
This sets a beautiful stage showing the contrast between how the weather is telling a story
About 1,800 persons have been baptized during the year, not including those baptized by Daniel at the destruction of St. Joseph.
showing the number of lives has been changed during a year gives testament to the kinda work that was done by the missionaries
On this visit I noticed two or three things. Louys's father, hearing that it was necessary to learn the sign of the Cross, the Pater, the Ave, and the Apostles' Creed, said that all that was a small matter, and that he would have little intelligence if he could not learn it; that, having gone to various Nations, he had sometimes been entrusted with more than twenty different kinds of business, and that on his return he [page 63] had reported them all faithfully; and consequently he could very soon learn and remember the little we asked. Yet this intelligent man had to work hard to learn the sign of the Cross. It is wonderful how prompt [44] and wide awake men are in worldly affairs, and how dull they are in Spiritual things.
I find this paragraph enlightening by giving us what the writer has noticed and learned.
Tehorenhaegnon says that the thunder is afraid of this color of the Cross, if you like we will paint it another color, white, or black, or any other; and if, immediately after, it begins to rain, you will be sure Tehorenhaegnon has [31] told the truth; but if not, that he is an impostor. "
here they are speaking about just covering the Tehorenhaegnon to deceive