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...manuscripts, Poland's storied coronation sword, Szczerbiec. Their intrinsic value was in the millions, their historic value above price. In Canada they were carefully stored: 24 cases with the Redemptorist Fathers at the Shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupré, eight with the sisters of the Precious Blood convent in Ottawa, two in the vaults of the Bank of Montreal in Ottawa...
...long ago, Minister Fiderkiewicz (called "Fido" in Ottawa) decided to ship the treasures back to Poland. He sent the custodian of the collection, Dr. Stanislaw Swierz-Zaleski, to pick up the cases at the Ottawa convent. To the nun behind the grill Dr. Zaleski mumbled the secret password: "Holy Virgin of Czestochowa." The nun looked surprised. Only a few days before, a man "with a tumor on his ear" had appeared at the convent. He too had pronounced the secret password-and she had given him the treasures...
...Soon she has a second and better opportunity for mischief in the guise of piety. A country boy entrusted to a saintly and intelligent priest for schooling falls in love with Brigitte's stepdaughter. The woman separates them to punish their "sin," and sends the girl to a convent where she is even forbidden to write to her lover...
...Easter gift to the Orthodox Church, the Soviet Government last fortnight announced that Russia's once-wealthiest convent, the 422-year-old Novodyevichi ("New Virgins"), which has been a Moscow museum since 1922, would be restored to the Church. It could again take in Russian girls as nuns. About 90 other convents and monasteries throughout Russia have been recently returned to the Church, making its recovery of confiscated properties exceed...
Since World War II cut off his royalties from the U.S., Santayana has lived in a convent run by the Little Company of Mary on Rome's Celian Hill. There he ran through the Sisters' library - first Dante and all of Shakespeare's plays, then the Gospels in the Douai version and the lives of the saints...