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Alternately greedy and generous, Paganini made and spent a deal of money, slept in many an illicit bed, achieved the patronage of Napoleon's sister Elisa (Princess of Lucca and Piombo). Burned out in his early 50s, Paganini died in Nice at 58, a century ago last week. Few men have been so widely buried. For his sins, the Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved...
...least two miracles. Saint Gemma Galgani. "the Passion Flower of Lucca," every Friday for two years underwent the Stigmata-the five wounds in hands, feet and side which Christ suffered on the Cross. Present at her canonization last week were the two who had benefited by her miracles: Elisa Scarpelli, whose ulcers vanished instantly on May 14, 1938 after prayers to the saint, and Natale Scarpelli. The open leg ulcer he had from 1918 to 1935 healed overnight when a relic of the saint was placed inside the wound's dressing...
...with the German Christian Gottlieb Scheidler. Hence he listened with a peculiar appreciation to the music of the blind man. He went home, spoke enthusiastically of its sweetness and its delicacy. Soon after four lutes were ordered for the Aguilar household and the four children, Ezequiel, Pepe, Paco and Elisa, were set to practising...
...Friday evening, December 13, at 8.15 o'clock, the famed Aguilar Lute Quartet of Madrid will offer a concert in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building. The group is composed of Ezequiel Aguilar, small lute; Pepe Aguilar, small lute; Elisa Aguilar, lute; and Paco Aguilar, large lute...
...American liner New York exhibited last year the collection of the 15th Century canvasses which had hung in the National Arts Club, Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick sponsored a show aboard the French steamer Paris. Other boats which now float picture galleries: Leviathan (U. S. Line), Santa Luisa and Santa Elisa (Grace Line), Colombia (Panama Mail...