Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saint Mary's (1,100) .........Notre Dame, Ind. ...............Rom. Cath...
ROBERT M. SHEERIN Saint-Jean-Cap Ferrat, France...
...trance-like transport, he rises a yard into the air and German troops mysteriously call off a military operation. Inevitably, the priest's miracles are less convincing than his miseries. Yet through Don Ardito's occasional wonderworking, Novelist Coccioli compellingly argues his central thesis: that the saint is not a spiritual generator, but a spiritual conductor through whom the current of godliness electrically flows. It is apparent long before novel's end that Don Ardito had never actually faltered in his faith, and that what he had mourned as loss of soul was really the dross...
...figureheads. From Sculptor Randolph Rogers in 1871 came a statue of Lincoln. In 1887 Alexander Milne Calder, grandfather of the mobilist, did an equestrian bronze of Philadelphia's Civil War hero, General George Meade. Frederic Remington produced a Cowboy; Daniel C. French did an idealized female Justice; Augustus Saint-Gaudens carved a bust of President Garfield. There was a mounted George Washington said to be the largest bronze...
...time passed, the park became a mishmash of changing tastes: there were Roman gods, a Joan of Arc, a majestically cloaked Saint-Gaudens Pilgrim, a copy of Rodin's naked Thinker. Then in 1913 the wealthy Mrs. Ellen Phillips Samuel, daughter of a Philadelphia iron tycoon, left in her will a trust fund to be used to buy "statuary emblematical of the history of America." Emblem No 1 was a sturdy Icelandic Viking named Thorfinn Karlsefni; after him came a procession of American types-a Ploughman, an Immigrant, a Slave, a Miner. Finally in 1950 the city decided...