Word: fatimas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...looked like carnival time in Rio. Firecrackers popped, and from balconies flowers rained. Rio was welcoming a small (44 in., 33 Ibs.) white & gold statue of Our Lady of Fatima, whose famous shrine in Portugal is rivaling even Lourdes in popularity (TIME, May 14, 1951)As the statue, on tour of the world since the spring of 1947, moved through the streets in a gilded carriage, Cariocas followed, cheering and weeping. Even the devotees of African white magic came out of Rio favelas (hillside slums). Little girls, dressed as angels and as the Virgin herself, stood along...
...Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (Warner...
...read with some disappointment and chagrin the CRIMSON's deprecatory comments on the new motion picture "Lady of Fatima". Notwithstanding the fact that so many of the current movies make use of "gimmicks" and showy scenes, we nevertheless could not help feeling that the blast was too strong...
...review neither contained nor implied criticism of events at Fatima, or of any religious beliefs. Instead, it condemned the producers of this film for debasing a sensitive religious theme into an irreligious sideshow. Comparisons between the event and its movie facsimile were based on information from "The National Catholic Almanac...
...mauling the religious theme of Fatima through the phoncy process of sentimentalizing and sensationalizing, the picture reduces it to an empty plot and a series of gimmicks. While not actually secrelegious, this is certainly irreverent when one of these gimmicks is the Virgin Mary...