Word: crypted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told how Motolinia and a group of Aztec warriors cut the Emperor's corpse down from a tree, smeared it with a paste of herbs and took it hundreds of miles to Ixcateopan, Cuauhtemoc's birthplace. There they buried the Emperor and erected a church above the crypt...
...Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under the Franco regime, which requires police permits for gatherings of more than ten, Spain's 8,000 Jews had no place for public worship...
...eldest son, who is quietly living out his years in the French zone, was about to get a glittering reminder of the old days. The British, acting on a 1946 tip, had dug up the crown of the Hohenzollerns, hidden during the war under the false step of a crypt in a tiny church. This week, after some careful investigation to make sure of its authenticity, the gold-heavy gewgaw, studded with 150-odd rose-cut diamonds and topped by a giant sapphire, was on its way back to its rightful owner...
Earlier in the year, when the birds were nesting, the monks discovered a nest of swallows above the altar in the newly patched crypt of Saint Benedict. Some of them proposed to tear it down. But Dom Oderisco Graziosi good-humoredly intervened. "Let them stay," he urged. "After all, they too are rebuilding...
...Germans tried to get him to collaborate. Said he: "A concentration camp is not an argument." Later he managed to escape by masquerading as a French schoolteacher, hid out in various French monasteries. He spoke a few times before refugee groups. One night, in the crypt of a big Lyon church, he told the Bishop of Metz and 1,500 fellow Lorrainers: "Hitler is lost! You may be sure of that." After that, the Nazis put a price on his head. Friends who knew him before the war now find him subtly changed. Schuman, the Premier, has more warmth than...