Word: saints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...twice refer to the C.D.F. as an "extinct" organization, and claim it "quit several years ago." This is an irresponsible falsehood. The C.D.F. only started in 1956, when it gave three productions: Henry V, a new version of The Beggar's Opera, and Saint Joan. It brought us Emlyn Williams and Marcel Marceau in 1957, two productions by the Theatre National Populaire in 1958, the Vieux-Colombier company and Gielgud's Ages of Man early this year, and is offering three shows this summer. Extinct? No; you, Mr. Capp, are the dodo...
...weaving, which soon brought prosperity to the village. St. Ronan, tradition has it, was driven out of town by a mob of angry shrews whose leader accused him of being a werewolf-she was afraid that the hermit was persuading her husband to become a monk. The saint left town walking barefoot across the rocky terrain outside the village...
Another six years will pass before Bretons again walk in the footsteps of their saint. Oldtimers thought they noted particular fervor among the marchers this year, recalling the great devout pilgrimages before World War I. Still, some recalled that St. Ronan had walked barefooted. Nowadays, said a local priest, "just a few go without shoes-usually only those who have some specially profound penitence to make...
...mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint in the struggle between Catalonian Christians and Moors; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V prayed before the Black Virgin many times, and Saint Ignatius Loyola found his vocation in her presence. Today, she is the legendary protector of all Catalonia, and every devout Catalonian makes a pilgrimage to her shrine at least once in life...
Before his early death in 1609, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio painted no fewer than three St. Jeromes. The most renowned version is in Rome's Villa Borghese, but the best-done from the same model-may well be Montserrat's. The Montserrat canvas shows the saint in repose, with only a skull for company, in peaceful contemplation. It has all the power of Caravaggio's drawing, which influenced Rubens. It is a striking example of Caravaggio's favorite color combination-red and black-which has influenced painters from Georges de La Tour to the abstract-expressionist...