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Only the doctors and nurses specially assigned to the new unit at Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center were allowed to enter it, and even they had to "scrub up" first and put on a sterile gown, cap and mask. Lining the pale green wall was a row of Plexiglas-covered incubators. The babies who wriggled and squeaked in them last week were being treated like miniature maharajahs, with the most expert and intensive care around the clock. To diaper them with out changing the balmy temperature of their isolation, nurses worked through armholes in the incubator sides. Some...
...miracles": a man run over by a car was uninjured because his wife invoked Izildinha's name; a tubercular was cured after doctors had given up hope; a chronically sick child suddenly bloomed with health. In 1944 Constantino's saintly connections so impressed the townfolk of Monte Alto, 250 miles northwest of Sao Paulo, that they gave him land for a big food-processing plant. In a carnival of publicity, Constantino turned out canned peas, oatmeal and other foods -plastering each container with his Izildinha trademark and picture...
Then he had a new idea. Why not bring over Izildinha's casket from Portugal? The townfolk of Monte Alto eagerly agreed to build a mausoleum. On the great day of her arrival in 1958, some 10,000 people lined the streets, and dozens of white-frocked little girls named Izildinha scattered rose petals ahead of the pallbearers. There were speeches and fireworks; Constantino was hoisted on the shoulders of townsmen and officially named "honorary citizen of Monte Alto...
...Fall. But before long, things began to go wrong. Constantino accused his managers in Monte Alto of embezzling company funds, announced he wanted nothing more to do with the town, sold his factory, and demanded the return of his sainted sister's body-back to Sao Paulo, "where she belongs with her family." Monte Alto's town fathers pleaded, even held a festival in Constantino's honor last year. They named a street after him, dedicated a bust to his late wife. But there was no placating Constantino...
Last October he sent a truck to Monte Alto, loaded it up with a cargo of Izildinha medals, books, banners and photos that the town had printed. Monte Alto's town fathers let him take them away-but not Izildinha. Legally and in writing, Constantino had donated her to Monte Alto. "The body belongs to us," said a former mayor of Monte Alto. "Even if she is not a saint, she is still something for the people to cling to." Recently, 5,000 citizens turned out in a mass demonstration against Constantino. "Respect Our Faith: Don't Steal...