Word: grottos
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...more than a century, Roman Catholics have flocked to the shrine at Lourdes to pray and bathe in the sacred waters of the grotto spring. Five million pilgrims are expected to visit this year, enriching the town by nearly $400 million. So many faithful are coming, in fact, that a holy-water shortage has developed. For the first time in its history, Lourdes is rationing the blessed potion...
...Angeles owes some gratitude: the green bulk that rises beside the La Brea Tar Pits has been toned down from Goff's original sketches. It no longer flaunts pseudo-Aztec mosaic panels; its tower, which looked like a Hawaiian chief's headdress clapped on top of a random-rubble grotto, has been pruned; and the millions of little round mother-of-pearl tiles, like sequins, that were meant to encrust its inside columns have been replaced by cream plaster. Connoisseurs of Goff will also miss the grace notes of his other buildings: no orange carpet on the roof, no replicas...
...usual suggested divine intervention, or at least the help of a saint, but both church leaders and philosophers tend to be skeptical about these things. Proofs are demanded, testimonies weighed. Still, the streets of Lourdes are lined with stores selling rows and rows of bottled water from the grotto, and the grotto itself bristles with the crutches discarded by those who walked away. How would the FDA rule on the efficacy of such water...
...just making the scene with a friend or teaching fellow. It's also the traditional place to break up with your romantic attachment: "Beware of being Pamplona'd." Good coffee, small portions, but untypically good prices, a few snacks and pastries, Cafe Algiers (40 Brattle St.): An underrated little grotto next to the Brattle Theater, the Algiers is a slice of the Middle East with a warm and comfy atmosphere, strong coffee, and an array of eats from pastries to hummos and tabooli. With classical and sometimes ethnic music, one of the best coffeehouses in the Square. Passim (47 Palmer...
...held a special audience for the sick. Walking quietly among the wheelchairs and stretchers, the Pope touched the lame, kissed the heads of small children carried to him by their parents, and blessed elderly cripples too weak even to speak. Finally, the Pope paused at the front of the grotto to pray in silence. For ten minutes he knelt, his head bowed, occasionally seeming to wipe away tears. Then he told his fellow pilgrims, "Faith assures us that the Lord can and wants to draw good from evil. Neither just nor unjust, suffering remains difficult to understand and difficult...