Word: assisi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most cosmopolitan and busiest Roman Catholic church in the U.S. is Manhattan's Church of St. Francis of Assisi. Unlike big, stylish St. Patrick Cathedral, St. Francis is small and sandwiched off among office buildings in a crowded section near Pennsylvania Station...
...Roman Catholic Church, traditionally circumspect in the matter of miracles, had for weeks remained aloof while the legend of Pierrette Regimbal grew & grew (TIME, Oct. 1). The legend said that 13-year-old Pierrette had been visited by St. Francis of Assisi, could work miraculous cures.* The Church noted that thousands of ailing pilgrims were visiting Pierrette's homemade grotto in predominantly Catholic Quebec, and that hundreds of others were writing to beg shipments of water from Pierrette's well...
Visiosn of Saint Francis. Pierrette Regimbal is a frail, pale child, seventh in a French Canadian family of twelve. Since early childhood she has been lame. One day about five years ago Pierette was playing near home when she believed she saw Saint Francis of Assisi. She touched the saint's hands. Then she saw that her own hands were bloodstained. Her lameness, she said, was momentarily cured. (She still uses crutchees...
...Assisi, site of 700-year-old San Francesco, oldest Gothic church in Italy, escaped unscathed...
...ancient lands of Tuscany and Umbria they captured Assisi, where St. Francis lived and preached. British Iancers. now motorized, fought for two days on the outskirts of Perugia, then moved into the almost undamaged city of Gothic buildings and Umbrian paintings...