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...Pope lay alone, except for guards, almost on the spot from which he had addressed his his toric Vatican Council II. In the next two days, more than 1,000,000 people shuffled by the body to pay their last respects. On Thursday night, the body, inside a triple coffin of walnut, lead and cypress, was placed in the crypt beneath St. Peter's; eventually, in accordance with John's wishes, it will be moved to the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Pope's cathedral as Bishop of Rome. Then the priests and nuns...
Hand in the Trap. Once upon a wedding night, a bride hid from her husband. She hid in a wooden chest that was shaped like a coffin-and then, to her horror, found that she could not lift the lid. She called and called, but no one could hear her. They looked and looked, but no one could find her. Twenty years later, they found what was left of her: a skeleton in tulle...
...grisly fable. It is known to folklore as "The Bride of Modena," and it is elaborated with decadent exuberance in this gloomy picture of provincial life in Argentina. The bride of the film is an innocent young woman seduced and then abandoned by her lover (Francisco Rabal). Her coffin is the room in which she shuts herself forever, a prisoner of pride. Twenty years later, her lover finds what is left of her. At the sight of him, she dies of shock. At the sight of her, he shrugs-and casually seduces her innocent young niece (Elsa Daniel...
...young Presbyterian minister Henry Pitney Van Dusen wrote a congratulatory letter to his friend and mentor, Henry Sloane Coffin, newly elected president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. In it, Van Dusen, a recent past president of Union's student body, innocently offered his assistance to Coffin in any matter concerning the students. Although Van Dusen had no thoughts of an academic career, Coffin with mistaken shrewdness concluded that the young cleric was fishing for a job. Later, Coffin wrote Van Dusen, urging him to take an instructorship at Union, and made the offer so warmly courteous that...
...those who could not flee from the cities "life was an unrelieved nightmare," Langer stated. "You could hear the rumble of coffin carts all day long; parents deserted their children and people went mad with terror...