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...world there's the Amalfi Drive. For more of antiquity there's Pompei; and for two of the most gracious of ancient temples certainly everybody goes to Paestum. And then there's Capri, where they don't know the "Isle of Capri"; and there's the Blue Grotto . . but who doesn't love Italy for the things to see and to let the imagination play over...

Author: By Christopher Janus, | Title: The Oxford Letter | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...South Bend retreats are conducted on the University of Notre Dame campus by the Holy Cross Fathers who run that institution. Masses and other religious observances take place before Notre Dame's copy of the grotto at France's Lourdes. With big, 41-year-old Rev. Patrick Henry Dolan, C. S. C., as director, last week's retreat attracted 1,300 Catholics. As distinguished from retreatants elsewhere, they observed strict silence even at mealtimes, heard for the first time a nonreligious talk, by the University's Economics Professor Rev. William Augustine Bolger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Golden Hours | 8/17/1936 | See Source »

...Peter's Square, he remarked: "When a man is 80 years old, he cannot make too far-distant dates." Last fortnight, on the eve of the feast of St. Peter, Pius XI, in accordance with papal custom, descended to the cool tomb of his predecessor, in a grotto beneath St. Peter's. There he prayed, stood silent where five years ago he said: "Some day I, too, shall find sweet repose in this place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pope to the Hills | 7/13/1936 | See Source »

...others: Masons, Elks, Odd Fellows, Sojourners, Maccabees, Eagles, Try-po-bed Grotto, Shepherds, Ahepa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fun With Flies | 3/2/1936 | See Source »

Reason for the comparative discomfort of bachelor hall was that the fixtures in the huge, antiquated kitchen in the basement were being removed to make way for modern electric equipment. A second operation even closer to the Roosevelt heart: an ancient "grotto:' used as a cow barn by Andrew Jackson was being freshened up to serve as a storehouse for rare old hams and fine cheeses relished by the Squire of Hyde Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Bachelor Hall | 8/5/1935 | See Source »

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