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At the age of 42, "to please my father, tease the Pope, and spite the devil," Martin Luther, a former Augustinian monk, married Catherine von Bora, a 26-year-old former Cistercian nun. The event horrified Catholic Christendom, set the precedent for all future Protestant divines, and led the humanist...
Two cousins smuggle into the country on a cargo ship. Catherine (Eddie's niece) falls in love with the younger one--blond, a singer, weak, a maker of dresses. "The guy's not right," Eddie cries, and soon he is obsessed with breaking up the match. At last, he anonymously...
Yet somehow I found myself entering into Eddie's misperception. When his wife mourned, "Whatever happened we all done it," I half believed her, though I knew in my head, with Catherine, that Eddie was a rat who belonged in a sewer.
PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY-29 East 36th. The Morgan Library has dug up a jewel: Catherine of Cleves' Book of Hours. Considered the finest Dutch manuscript in existence, it was painted about 500 years ago for Catherine's wedding by an artist known only as the Arenberg Master. Its...
Set in a meadow by the River Cherwell, St. Catherine's low, flat roofs (maximum height: 30 ft.) blend with, rather than dominate, a horizon defined by trees (see opposite page). Only the high, spare bell tower-two planes joined by minimal struts-provides collegiate symbolism. Inside the grounds...