Word: jacinta
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...small coffins that had been reverently exhumed there, moved a solemn little procession. Slowly it wound its way through the streets to the basilica of Our Lady of Fátima. Inside, in the center of the chancel, were reburied the bones of Francisco Marto and his sister Jacinta...
...children's new resting place was close by the spot in the rocky Portuguese hills, 70 miles north of Lisbon, where they had reported seeing what has become the most famous apparition of the Virgin Mary since the visions of Bernadette at Lourdes (1858). Francisco was nine and Jacinta was seven on that May Sunday in 1917 when, playing with their cousin Lucia, ten, they saw "a lady all dressed in white" hovering over a small evergreen. In 1919 and 1920, Francisco and Jacinta died of influenza. Lucia has written down the Virgin's revelations; among them...
...last week's simple ceremony stood an old man & woman, the parents of Francisco and Jacinta. Lucia, now a Carmelite nun at a convent 40 miles away in Coimbra, did not leave her seclusion to come to the service...
...given by the Spanish club two years ago. The plot, laid in Madrid, is based on the amusing complications which follow Don Narciso's boast of his popularity with the ladies. To prove this, Narciso arranges with Juana, a flower girl, to bring three bouquets, from Rosa, Violante, and Jacinta, respectively. Ramon, suspecting that all is net right, after the three bouquets have appeared, sends notes by Juana, while Narciso is out of the room, urging three of his friends in the neighborhood to come at once. They appear one by one, pretending to be the injured husbands...
...friend, Don Ramon, believe that he is very attractive to the ladies, invites him to breakfast. Narciso arranges with Juana, a flower girl, to bring in three bouquets, one of roses, one of violets and one of hyacinths. They are supposed to be sent by Rosa, Violante and Jacinta...