Word: cathedrale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On Easter Sunday, at the Government-sponsored unveiling of a plaque in Strasbourg Cathedral to the American dead in Alsace, De Gaulle appeared as hero. Thousands jammed the rainswept streets to cry "De Gaulle au pouvoir!" (De Gaulle to power!). In the presence of U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery, De Gaulle...
On a wooden platform in the west tower of the Mexico City Cathedral, a wizened little man worked a 500-lb. clapper back & forth until the great bell gave tongue. With all the majesty of her 155 years and the strength of her 27,000 pounds, sonorous Santa Marí...
This was José de la Luz Vegas' big moment-made keener by the Holy Week of silence his bells had just ended. José has been a happy man from the day when the cathedral priests, noticing how he hung around the towers, appointed him chief bellringer. He...
The Hours of the Bells. The day, for José, begins at 5:30, when he climbs to the bell platform and sounds Dona María nine times. Then he has breakfast, slips into his cassock and runs down into the cathedral to serve 7 o'clock Mass...
For such festive days as Easter, José makes early and serious preparation, selecting his assistants with care. He needs 60 strong men, sober, to handle the bells in both towers. When all are in place, he takes his position on the cathedral roof midway between the towers, where he...