Word: benedita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moving spirit behind this worldly-wise enterprise is Sister Benedita Idefelt, 43, a Catholic nun from Finland, who now teaches school in the Brazilian town of Juiz de Fora. In Cristo Total, Sister Benedita has retold the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross, taking bold liberties with the story...
...wanted to show that Christ didn't die and that was the end of him, back in the year 33," says Sister Benedita...
Stronger Stuff. Sister Benedita agrees that her pageant "isn't really religious at all-it's more of a social attack against injustices." She believes she learned about cruelty at the end of the war in Germany. "German and Russian soldiers battled under our noses. When it was all over, I had to identify the dead. There were mounds of corpses, some without heads, and I went through their pockets looking for some information about them. I saw that both sides had families. Both carried religious medals, and both were human...