That Yancey was even in church was a Christmas eve miracle.

扬西肯来教堂，这简直是圣诞前夕的奇迹。

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Some movie stars wear their sunglasses even in church; they is afraid god may recognize them and ask for autograph.

有些电影明星连在教堂里也戴上太阳眼镜，惟恐上帝可能认出来而要请他们签名。

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Monsignor Quinn, who died in 1940 at age 52, championed racial equality at a time when discrimination against blacks was ubiquitous in America, even inside the Catholic Church.

奎因于1940年逝世，享年52岁，曾在美国歧视黑人现象最严重的时期勇敢地捍卫种族平等，甚至在天主教会内为黑人信徒争取利益。

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He was freezing more and more solid, he felt like, but he had not thought of his father or the blank frozenness of his father, even in church, which had once filled him with such pity.

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Mr Hicks stressed that identifying with Christianity could be a cultural thing rather than signifying actual church attendance or even a belief in God, adding that the census did not ask about church-going activity.

BBC: Census 2011: One third in Wales have no religion

The holiday is celebrated across Europe but while in Scotland, Greece and Romania the saint (one of Jesus's 12 disciples) is honoured in church prayers, pubs or even with a bank holiday, in some remote western Ukrainian villages people will be throwing a boot over a rooftop and whispering chants in candlelight to find a husband or a wife.

BBC: Pagan holidays in modern Ukraine