Word: saint
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doing an altar of St Thérèse de Lisieux, my favorite saint, and I needed a model for the angel in one of the panels. Jack, with his curly hair and his youthful serenity of expression, was literally God-sent." So said Sculptress Irena Wiley of John F. Kennedy, who at the time in 1939 was spending a week or so of his summer vacation from Harvard visiting the sculptress and her diplomat husband in Europe. Carving the wooden altarpiece for a Belgian church, Mrs. Wiley portrayed the future U.S. President as a guardian angel hovering over...
...Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. This retelling of the life of the great saint has all the beauty of earlier versions, and much more power...
This week the Pretender will get back to Estoril just in time to celebrate his 49th birthday. A few days later, there will come a flood of guests-friends, political supporters, monarchists of any ilk-for 31 the formal celebration of the feast day of his patron saint, San Juan Bautista. Every year the ritual is the same. As the visitors enter Villa Giralda's big, comfortable drawing room, they press toward Don Juan and his wife to bow or curtsy. They greet the man who may one day be their ruler...
...Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek novelist restores agony of soul to a saint too often portrayed as sickly sweet...
...Saint Francis, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The late great Greek novelist restores agony of soul to a saint too often portrayed as sickly sweet...