Word: relics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show alarm. They were further stirred up when Mayor Gregori enlarged upon the dangers of travel, how shaking might crack the reliquary's enamel. A long unhappy wai went up from the women now crowding about Gregori. Said he: "Of course, you've the comfort that the relic is going to a really safe place." A shout went up filling the square. "They are going to keep our relic in Rome. Orvieto has lost it." Women in the crowd began furiously to beat on the cathedral door. Added Mayor Gregori smoothly...
...country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...
...Degrees. In 1898, Italy's King Umberto I agreed to have the relic photographed. Secondo Pia, a photographer of Turin, was given the job. While developing the plate, he reported: "Suddenly I was so filled with fear that I almost fainted. For there grew plainly visible on the plate the face and body of a man whose head was covered with blood, whose wrists carried stigmata, whose expression was one of untold majesty...
...hands, Surgeon Pierre Barbet of Paris declared that the palms would tear too easily to support the weight of a man, and Christ's wrists must indeed have been pierced. Believers in the shroud's authenticity doubt that this fact would be known to anyone forging the relic...
...younger physicians and medical students in last week's audience, Dr. Dock seemed almost a relic of the last century. He was in fact one of the eagerly assisting midwives at the birth of modern medicine...