Word: devoutedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crutches & Cardinals. A month after she wept, the Madonna was carried at the head of a procession of 30,000 of the devout to a railway shed, where the figure was sealed in a glass-walled case topped by a brass cross. Thousands of pilgrims, including 72 bishops and archbishops and three cardinals, have flocked to the shrine of the little Madonna, now surrounded by a display of crutches and braces presumably thrown away by the cured. All day long Masses were being said, and assisting the local priests was Antonietta's husband Angelo. While the church...
...Dark, devout Antonietta, then 20, became pregnant and began to suffer agonizing pains, during which her sight became clouded, and she prayed fervently to the Madonna for deliverance. Then, she recalls, on the morning of Aug. 29, 1953, in the midst of one of these seizures, "I saw tears pouring down the Madonna's face. It was incredible. For a moment I thought I was mad. She was crying like a child. Then I began to shout, 'La Madonnina piange [The little Madonna is weeping...
First Things First. At no point did Gavin actually advocate a "general staff system"-which conjures up images of Prussianism to many a skittish Congressman-and to all devout Navymen. But that was precisely what he was urging, just as retired Air Force General James Doolittle had urged a fortnight before when appearing before the Preparedness Investigating Subcommittee. In the minds of Jim Gavin and Jimmy Doolittle, and in the opinion of others among the nation's best military thinkers, Neil McElroy cannot even begin to solve the Pentagon's problems until he has a general staff, whatever...
...retired lumberman, prosperous farmer (income: $20,000 a year) and devout member of the Willamette Gospel Church, Harry Holt began his crusade after he saw a documentary film that showed the plight of U.S.-Korean babies, many of whom were left by their mothers to die. Others, he learned, were ostracized by other Korean children. "Harry," says Bertha Holt, "could never forget those tiny outstretched arms. Finally, he realized that the Lord was speaking to him to do something for these children...
...make "any room a private chapel," the devout may keep their rosaries in a Musical Madonna, which "glows softly with comforting concealed light," and upon opening the rosary drawer, "plays Gounod's Ave Maria." Another item for the room: a plaque of Jesus' head, "breathtaking in its vibrant lifelike color . . . created so that the eyes and face of Jesus follow you in any direction...