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...according to legend, the house of the Virgin Mary landed in what is now the Italian town of Loreto after a miraculous flight from Nazareth. That association with air travel has been enough to make the town of 9,500 a profitable center of jet-age piety. Last week at least 50,000 pilgrims crammed in to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a papal proclamation designating the Madonna of Loreto as protector of aviators; they overflowed the 20 hotels and dozen boarding houses that have gone up in Loreto in recent years. Prosperity from tourism has helped Loreto entrepreneurs...
...pulled into Nazareth...
...Arab storekeeper in Nazareth...
White Limestone. At long last, Nazareth can offer good reason for a longer stay. Rising over the grotto is the new Basilica of the Incarnation and Church of the Annunciation, a double-decked, $2,000,000 building of dressed white Nazareth limestone that took 15 years to plan and build. Paid for by worldwide donations and built under the supervision of the Franciscan fathers, the new basilica is the largest Christian house of worship in the Middle East (capacity 3,000). Reflecting the long history of the sacred site, its lower church incorporates pillars, walls and an altar from several...
...soon stand in New York's Lincoln Center just across from the Metropolitan Opera House. A convert to Roman Catholicism, Shrady does secular commissions as well, but admits "I have a special feeling for religious art." He received only $28,000, well below his usual fee, for the Nazareth doors-but they may remain on public display a lot longer than some of his other works. One Israeli architect estimates that the new basilica ought to last at least 1,000 years...