Word: prayers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State Agostino Cardinal Casaroli, the Pope visited the grim confines of Pawiak Prison, an infamous Nazi death house that has been preserved as a monument to thousands of Poles who were tortured and executed there. In a small square in front of the prison entrance, he knelt in silent prayer before a mulberry tree bearing dozens of painted metal plaques with the names of Pawiak victims...
...testimony which amazed the whole world, when the Polish worker stood up for himself with the gospel in his hand and a prayer on his lips." The pictures coming out of Poland in those days, he said, had "touched hearts and consciences...
...first two years in office, at first seemed oblivious to the report's political potential. Addressing 150 educators, politicians and business leaders at the White House on April 26, the day the report came out, he merely reiterated his support for tuition tax credits for private schools and prayer in the public schools, neither of which, understandably, was even mentioned by the N.C.E.E...
...performed such miracles.... The second type of personal miracles that made Sainte Foy essentially unique were called joca ("jests").... In these joca Sainte Foy overlooked no detail, no matter how small, or seemingly unimportant.... Sainte Foy helped one of [the 11th-century author] Bernard's pupils find a prayer book that he had lost in a forest near Angers. She filled a gourd with wine to refresh several hot and thirty pilgrims...
...Still, for frightened parents it satisfies the need to do something. Says Martha Carter, whose son and two daughters had their prints taken in a Dallas suburb in April: "We mark all our silver. We might as well have some way to identify our children." Then she adds the prayer of every parent with a child's fingerprint card: "I hope to never have...