Word: shrine
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...National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception is a vast Romanesque-Byzantine tribute to the Virgin of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of U.S. Roman Catholics. The idea of building it was first broached in 1912 by Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, fourth rector of the Catholic University, who lies buried in the new shrine's south crypt. He received a blessing for the project (and $400) from Pope Pius X, and in 1920 the cornerstone was laid at the site in northeast Washington, at Fourth Street and Michigan Avenue...
...building of the shrine, slowed by the Depression and World War II, was carried out without structural steel, like the ancient cathedrals; more than 350 carloads of Indiana limestone were used in its massive walls. The National Shrine is 459 ft. at its longest point and 240 at its widest, has a capacity of 6,000 people. The $250,000 organ is a memorial to deceased chaplains and members of the U.S. armed forces. The 329-ft. bell tower cost $1,000,000, raised by the Knights of Columbus. Two statues of the Virgin by Sculptor Ivan Mestrovic dominate...
Still to be completed, among other projects, are the marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised so far). Says Monsignor Thomas J. Grady, fifth director of the shrine project: "God was good to us. In the five years it took to build the upper church-with as many as 200 men a day working 200-300 feet up-no one was killed or seriously injured...
Died. Frank Sherman Land, 69, a Kansas City banker, onetime (1954) Imperial Potentate of the Shrine of North America, founder of DeMolay (the Shrine's youth organization), trustee of the Harry S. Truman Library in Independence, Mo.; of a pulmonary edema; in Kansas City...
Partially as a result of the story, things went hard for the Jews of England. Nearly 1,000 were jailed that year in London alone, Jewish property was confiscated, and many of them were executed. Little St. Hugh, as he was soon called,*received a pillared shrine in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1791 the tomb was opened by the president of the Royal Society. Inside was "the complete skeleton of a boy, three feet, three inches long." For years, on a plaque above the tomb, visitors to Lincoln Cathedral could read a full account of the story, softened only...