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...along with four other members of an auto-stealing gang, one Roberto Borsetti explained that Father Jacques had financed the new parish school by selling stolen cars. The cars, 17 in all, were snatched by Borsetti's crooks at night, driven into a palm-thatched workshop in the churchyard, repainted and turned over, complete with forged license plates and bills of sale, to Father Jacques, who admitted accepting some of them "as gifts for the church charities...
London's oldest parish church is All Hallows By the Tower, founded as a convent by Erkenwald, Bishop of London, about 675. Richard the Lionhearted built a chapel in its churchyard; Edward the Confessor gave it a statue of the Virgin. The Great Seal of England was once guarded from William the Conqueror on All Hallows' altar; erring Knights Templar were tried there for heresy in the 14th century, and the headless body of many a wrong-guessing notable was brought there from the nearby Tower of London for burial. In the Great Fire of 1666, Samuel Pepys...
Dancing in the Churchyard. After that the landlords gave less and less to Padre Zamorano's church, and that led to the incident of the gambling party. Right in the churchyard, the peasants played roulette, held a raffle, drank wine and danced; Padre Zamorano himself pounded the piano and sang. The proceeds, fortunately, were substantial and went to support Catapilco's school, founded by Zamorano...
...within a setting of modern business buildings. Main features: i) a paved forecourt, 100 yards wide, before St. Paul's west portal; 2) realigned streets, to provide a sweeping, unbroken expanse of lawn (and possibly a fountain) in place of St. Paul's present traffic-cluttered southeast churchyard; 3) a plan for varying the heights of surrounding buildings, among them a 23-story office building farther down Ludgate Hill, while keeping the distant view of the dome unobstructed; 4) redesign of the close-in area into a series of interconnecting courts (including a 240-car underground garage...
...seems perfectly natural that angels in their visitations should call on Sarah Tubb, whom Spencer remembers vividly when "she knelt right down in the street at the time there was a thing called Halley's comet." On the day of the Resurrection, Spencer paints the whole Cookham churchyard opening up as the dead come forth. In one version Spencer portrays himself on judgment morn, leaning against a tombstone, his work apparently done...