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...midnight Mass in Rio's Municipal Stadium, jammed to nearly double capacity by the biggest turnout Rio could remember, topping even the most popular football game. Later, when a photographer's flashbulb exploded, a man blind for 27 years cried: "I see a light! Thank you, Nossa Senhora de Fatima!" Churchmen did not claim any miracles for the Lady, but others did, fervently. One man who said that the statue could work miracles was challenged by a skeptic. In the argument that followed, the two men drew their knives. The believer was stabbed to death...
Press Suppressed. The dictatorship also attacked the press. The Department of Press & Propaganda closed five pro-U.S. national magazines with democratic inclinations: Diretrizes, a political journal; Illustracão Brasileira, a liberal monthly; Renovacão, a student publication; Nossa Senhora Menina, whose editor was Don Carlos Duarte, liberal Catholic Bishop of Maura; Mundo Medico, a professional journal that had plumped for social welfare...
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