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DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last survivor of three children who claimed in 1917 to have seen apparitions of the Virgin Mary near the Portuguese village of Fatima, which has become a pilgrimage site for millions annually; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. At age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th day of every month from May through October. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them...
...DIED. SISTER LUCIA DE JESUS DOS SANTOS, 97, the last of three shepherd children who claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary in apparitions near the Portugese village of Fatima, since then a pilgrimage site for millions; at her convent in Coimbra, Portugal. In 1917, at age 10, she and two cousins said the Virgin offered revelations to them on the 13th of every month for five months. Though the children were jailed in efforts to get them to retract, church officials, after an exhaustive investigation, lent legitimacy to the visions in 1930 by calling them "worthy of belief...
...Spanish government began rescuing its architectural treasures by converting them into paradores, or inns. One of the finest is the Parador de Granada inside the Alhambra?the sprawling 14th century Moorish palace comprised of royal quarters, court complexes, a mosque and exquisite gardens. Visitors stay in a converted Catholic convent built in the palace by 15th century monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. Guests can enjoy the famous Generalife gardens by moonlight long after the gates are shut to day-trippers. Rooms from $283 per night. tel: (34-958) 22 14 40; www.parador.es...
...Spanish government began rescuing its architectural treasures by converting them into paradores, or inns. One of the finest is the Parador de Granada inside the Alhambra - the sprawling 14th century Moorish palace comprised of royal quarters, court complexes, a mosque and exquisite gardens. Visitors stay in a converted Catholic convent built in the palace by 15th century monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. Guests can enjoy the famous Generalife gardens by moonlight long after the gates are shut to day trippers. Rooms from $283 per night. tel: (34-958) 22 14 40; www.parador.es GERMANY The Hotel-Restaurant Schloss Landsberg, about...
...students of English gardening will know, that's a man-made landscape feature, a trench dug to conceal a fence in order to preserve the view. The nuns have one on the grounds of their convent, which Howie loves to approach at perilous speeds on his tractor mower. We go right to the edge with him, and even if we're not always laughing, we're glad to be along for the ride...