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...legend of 4th century St. Malchus is readymade for Hollywood-complete with caravans and capture by infidels, a fake marriage and a lovelorn heroine who became a hermit herself for love of the saint. The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, sealed up to suffocate in a cave by a persecuting emperor, were placed in miraculous hibernation by the Lord, to emerge 208 years later to their own astonishment and the edification of all good Christians...
Sorrowfully, Ferrara gave up conducting, retired to a hermit-like existence. When San Francisco-born Pianist Franceschi, an old friend, arrived in Rome this spring on a recital tour, she took to visiting Ferrara to play him his favorite sonatas. Slowly she reawakened his interest, at last persuaded him to conduct an orchestra with herself as soloist for a series of recordings. Under Soloist Franceschi's watchful eye, the recordings were completed. It seemed this week that Conductor Ferrara may at last be licking his old weakness. Vera Franceschi is sure of it. She plans to bring...
...written, like his own,/ In terms of places he was forced to leave ..."), there is a final affirmation, an almost defiant optimism, in Miss Rich's work. In the fallibility and passion of human behavior she seems to find its whole beauty. "Be rich as you are human," her hermit cries...
...white Church of Senhor Bom Jesus do Matosinhos. Last week the church was the goal of the great annual pilgrimage of Brazilian backlanders, as it has been each September since 1786. The Church of the Good Jesus has all the religious trappings of a shrine: founded by the Portuguese hermit Feliciano Mendes, and today a Redemptorist mission, it boasts the original cross used by the hermit and a wooden effigy of the Good Jesus renowned for winder-working properties. But only in recent decades have Brazilians recognized that the church itself is a priceless part of the nation...
...pray at 4 a.m. each day, U Nu was meditating one day several years ago in the sacred cave where the first Buddhist council was held, when he had a vision of a great gathering of monks chanting the scriptures in a similar cave. In 1948 an unknown hermit sent U Nu a walking staff engraved with the words Siri Mangala (glorious prosperity) and instructions to build a pagoda. If the pagoda were finished by 1952, the hermit said, great buildings would grow up around...