Word: fatima
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SENTENCED. Juan María Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...
...other players do well in their roles, although only Lewis Goldman as the vulgar Birdboot and Fatima Mahdi as the terrifically sinister Mrs. Drudge ("The fog is very treacherous around here--it rolls off the sea without warning, shrouding the cliffs in a deadly mantle of blind man's bluff...") manage to match Edelstein's spirit...
...came out of the evening shadows, amid pilgrims' candles and prayers, dressed in clerical garb and brandishing a 16-in. bayonet. Just as Pope John Paul II mounted the steps of the Basilica of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, carrying his own candle toward an altar outside the shrine, the black-clad figure lunged toward him. An alert Portuguese security guard swiftly wrestled the attacker into custody, but not before the man had come within a scant 3 ft. of John Paul. The Pope, indeed, was jostled as other security men pounced on the assailant, but frowning slightly...
...three papal excursions, the Fatima visit was by far the easiest to decide. For some time the Pope has wanted to visit the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima to give thanks for his recovery from the attempted assassination of last May 13-the 64th anniversary of the first apparition of the Virgin at Fatima...
...Catholic hierarchy. But he will no doubt listen with special attentiveness to American Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, who handles the logistics and security for papal trips. By week's end, the archbishop was in constant touch with Portuguese authorities ("There will be police and security men everywhere," said one Fatima official) and worrying, next things next, about details of the trip to England...