Word: nuns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Joan Hackett in the story of a nun's teaching experiences in Colorado...
Well Adapted. But when Philips tried the album-calling it The Singing Nun-in the U.S. last summer, it went nowhere. Philips then tried an old sales stimulus, taking two songs from it and putting out a 45-r.p.m. single. One side is called Dominique, and it has taken off like a grass fire. U.S. teen-agers are mad for the singing nun, even though Dominique is in French, and few are aware that the song lauds the virtues of the founder of the Dominican order. More than 400,000 have sold in three weeks, and the full Singing Nun...
...Dalat, 140 miles northeast of Saigon, the government faced a Buddhist problem of a different nature: what to do about an aged nun who, by reputation at least, has been flitting about the countryside working miracles. Known simply as "the Saint," she first appeared, according to rumor, on a mountain-top and began turning water from a dirty stream into miraculously clean holy water. A father reported that she cured his daughter's acne; two little boys who were mutes were taken to her, have since started uttering sounds. As word of her feats spread, Buddhist faithful...
...moving spirit behind this worldly-wise enterprise is Sister Benedita Idefelt, 43, a Catholic nun from Finland, who now teaches school in the Brazilian town of Juiz de Fora. In Cristo Total, Sister Benedita has retold the Catholic devotion of the Stations of the Cross, taking bold liberties with the story...
...Nun of Monza, by Mario Mazzucchelli. Based on archives opened six years ago in Milan, this book retells a lurid story that shocked 17th century Italy. It takes 14 years of solitary penitence before Sister Virginia of Monza is finally forgiven for her passionate, protracted love affair with a reckless nobleman...