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...clock was finally in place on Aug. 15, the Feast of the Assumption. The inauguration was divided into two parts: a civil ceremony on land, and a religious one at sea. At the first, Rocchi was to unveil the clock, which was wrapped in sackcloth. At the second, the statue of the Virgin Mary would be taken out to sea in a fishing vessel and Father Bernardoni would throw a wreath upon the waves...
White Violet. Tito and his paladins have chalked up some notable achievements in the physical reconstruction of Yugoslavia. In many villages, men still wear sackcloth trousers, and women cannot leave their houses for lack of clothes. But things are a lot better in Yugoslavia than in other war-torn countries (UNRRA aid to Yugoslavia has amounted to over 327 million dollars since April 1945). Tito has managed to keep most people ignorant of the fact that UNRRA supplies are free. In Belgrade recently, Yugoslavs in G.I. shirts and British army boots demonstrated in trucks, shouting: "Give us arms. We want...
Lent, the great Christian penitential season, began this week all over the world. In Europe, it will scarcely be noticeable: large parts of the Continent have been fasting, wearing sackcloth, and living amid ashes for several years. Even in one of Europe's best-fed countries, Cardinal Bernard Griffin last fortnight told his London archdiocese: "We are free to eat whatever we can obtain...
Medieval Christians confessed their sins on Shrove Tuesday (Mardi gras). Grave offenders were assigned to public penitence (sackcloth and ashes, strict fasting, no baths) until finally absolved of their sins on Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday. In those days, religion was directly concerned with maintaining public order; lawbreakers were ordered to join the Lenten penitents rather than be thrown into the town lockup...
Pierre Laval spent his last days in sackcloth in the death row of the Fresnes prison. He wrote farewell letters to his family, his lawyers. He chain-smoked. His grieving wife cried that the people who "got France into the war so unprepared" now wanted to silence him with death. General Charles de Gaulle refused every request for a new or re-opened trial; the grotesquerie of the first one had revolted all France...