Word: shrine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilgrims, bestowing virtue on the devout but not wasting a drop, grew tired. Thousands of grim, black-clad peasants who had been living on potatoes and pickles, hundreds of gayly costumed villagers, a few colonels in uniform, and counts in Bond Street tweeds, were flocking to Poland's holiest shrine to pray to Regina Regni Poloniae, the "Black Madonna" with the sabre cuts in her cheek. Their monotonously repeated prayer: "Theotokos, Mother of God, thanks to thee the wheat is in. But let it not be wasted; let there...
This spring his father took him on a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Miracles at Lourdes, France, where, good Catholic that he is, Fred quietly hoped for a miraculous cure, went away heartened nonetheless when no miracle occurred...
...world split into ideological hemispheres last month when Great Britain, France and the U. S. withdrew from the Venice International Film Festival (TIME, July 3). Last week the musical world showed signs of a similar division. The Rome-Berlin Axis was much in evidence at Bayreuth, Wagnerian shrine, where the stodgy, Nazi-favored conductors of recent years were joined by an Italian, Victor de Sabata. In Salzburg, which Anschluss knocked off the list of international smart-spots, four of seven scheduled operas were to be given in Italian, two of them with Italian casts, under Tullio Serafin, onetime conductor...
...Roman Catholic Church one evening last week, leaning on a cane. Her dragging left foot was supported in a steel brace. After services in the church, Mrs. Geraci and some 500 other worshippers followed Father Pasquale T. Lombardo to St. Lucy's new, $10,000 outdoor shrine, a replica of the famed grotto at Lourdes. Mrs. Geraci went to the shrine's pool, fed by city water trickling over big rocks below a statue of the Virgin...
...husband, a tailor who had lost his faith 31 years ago when an earthquake in Italy wiped out his family. "I believe! I believe!" cried Anthony Geraci, and rushed back to St. Lucy's with his wife. Soon there was such a press round the Geracis at the shrine that police had to be called. As the crowds continued to grow, Father Lombardo, who had heard of small "favors" (minor cures) at the shrine, said of Mrs. Geraci's healing: "It is a miracle of faith. I will report it to the Chancery Office...