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Next comes "The Saint," a story about Margarito Duarte, a Colombian man whose dead daughter's body has miraculously not decayed and who travels to Rome to have her canonized. He spends twenty-two years on his quest, lugging his daughter's corpse around in a cello case, surviving a succession of Popes and battling the insurmountable Vatican bureaucracy. Garcia Marquez's prose renders this grotesque premise poignant. Margarito is the (Latin) American innocent abroad, encountering a world he knows nothing about and which he is not prepared to confront...
Bach Society Orchestra. The orchestra will perform its first concert featuring Schubert's Symphony No. 8 in B minor, "Unfinished," Gorecki's Three Pieces in Olden Style and Saint-Saens' Symphony No. 2 in a minor, Op. 59. Paine Hall, 8 p.m. $5 for students. Tickets are available at the Holyoke Center Ticket Office and at the door...
Each family had their own saint (Carl Yastremski was my mother's and grandfather's), but Ted Williams was part of everyone's Boston, including my mother's and grandfather...
...onetime professor, tosses around such celestial concepts as "fundamental option," "invincible ignorance," "teleology" and "consequentialism." John Paul also peppers his paper with 184 footnotes, citing for instance the Second Vatican Council, the new Catechism of the Catholic Church (as yet unavailable in English) and Thomas Aquinas, the medieval saint who defined the concept of natural law. The grand finale is a hymn to the Virgin Mary...
...within Islam. In the 15th century, facing persecution and exile, European Jews found solace in the mystical writings known as the Cabala. Even Western Christianity, which has been strongly suspicious of ineffability, had its mystical tradition, exemplified by such figures as the German Dominican Meister Eckehart and the Spanish saint, Teresa of Avila...