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...Czestochowa shrine there was one brief scuffle between police and pilgrims. A priest also took the microphone to announce: "Let us pray for those who cannot reach Czestochowa because they are stopped." The regime denied the persistent reports that it was hindering pilgrims in order to cut down the crowds. Supposedly, roadblocks were set up to prevent traffic jams in the cities, but a Western diplomat ran into one a full 19 miles away from Cracow before the Pope's arrival there. Church officials reported to friends that in various cases the buses for pilgrims that were promised in order...
...Pope spent three days in the shrine city, Czestochowa, where he led the ceremony of consecration to the Virgin. Inside the fortress-like Jasna Gora (Bright Mountain) monastery is the Black Madonna painting, attributed by legend to St. Luke. "There are people and nations. Mother," the Pontiff prayed, "that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence. I entrust them to you in the way that you know best." Poles believe that prayer to her image by the Jasna Gora monks staved off invading Swedish armies in 1655. Since 1656 Mary...
...Pope's nine-day visit represents a rendezvous not only with people and politics but with Poland's past pains and glories. The tour was to include his home town of Wadowice, Cracow, where he served as Archbishop, and Czestochowa, his country's holiest shrine, which contains the painting of the Black Madonna. Temporal leaders have come and gone, but the Virgin has remained for 323 years "Krolowa Polski"(the Queen of Poland).*Finally the Pope will visit Auschwitz, a symbol of Nazi infamy and to Poles a reminder of the estimated 6 million Poles, 3 million...
...that we saw the adolescent Antoine constructing a shoebox shrine to Balzac. Now in Love on the Run, we see Antoine working in a printing shop and writing books. Through his autobiographical persona. Truffaut speaks for all the children in the world who grew up living vicariously through fiction. Mixed-up, intellegent, creative. Antoine symbolizes the modern intellectual who spent his adolescence going to classical music concerts only to fall in love with the girl in the next aisle...
Nobody complained when Opera Diva Helen Traubel sang at Nashville's Grand Ole Opry. But James Brown, the king of soul, at the shrine of country music? Well, that is noncountry royalty of a different kind, on account of all the king's funky songs. Insisted Pianist Del Wood, one of a pride of Opry regulars protesting