Word: marianism
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...Marian Wells Boulder, Colo...
...weavers, Kolbe was renowned in Polish Catholic circles long before his heroic death at Auschwitz. Fiercely devoted to the Virgin Mary, Kolbe, though often gravely ill with tuberculosis, founded a sizable Marian society, and followers started "Maryvilles" in Japan, Brazil and Illinois. Kolbe also created Niepokalanow, which became the world's largest friary. In this self-contained community of 800, the priests and brothers served in every role from fireman to mechanic. Before World War II, the friary's monthly magazine, Knight of the Immaculate, boasted an impressive 1 million circulation. Members of the community also...
...Marian was standing with her back to the front door, stating at her television. For a long time now, Marian had felt as if she were connected to the apartment by a circular ton beam that ran through all the electrical machines she owned. She saw it as tunneling from the television through her midsection to the stereo and then around through all the electrical appliances in the room. When she went through the front door, she felt she had to pull out of the connection. She visualized the beam tearing, ripping out of the TV and stereo and dangling...
Ever since puberty, you have been a dud, Marian. Where is the childn I befriended? Where is that child? You know what your Mo is? You get a boyfriend and you come alive. For the six months it lasts, you're like Lynda Carter in Wonder Woman, there's nothing you can't do. And when it ends, which it always does, you got nothing left. Suddenly, you're Werner Erhard's wet dream, you know...
...ardent followers of the populist policies of the late Dictator Juan Perón wanted to gain political capital from the major papal appearance of the day. That was an afternoon Mass at the venerable basilica of Our Lady of Luján, the nation's most sacred Marian shrine, 40 miles west of Buenos Aires. The Peronists had distributed leaflets through the capital and other cities with exhortations calling EVERYONE TO LUJÁN . . . WELCOME JOHN PAUL II ... THE POPE AND PERÓN ARE AS ONE GREAT HEART . . . EVITA IS A SAINT. As it turned out, with...