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...darkness and isolation for a recuperative period of three months. Instead of diminishing, however, the splotches only spread more rapidly. The French Government became so alarmed that in 1963 it closed off the cave to all but its own investigators. Preparing for the worst, it also ordered the national shrine photographed, so that the irreplaceable Paleolithic paintings would at least be preserved on film...
...chief shrine for this northern wooden architecture is the isle of Kizhi in Lake Onega, some 200 miles northeast of Leningrad. There, a dozen wooden buildings-to be joined eventually by 60 additional examples of northern architecture from nearby villages-faithfully re-create a 17th century Russian community, dominated by the 22-domed Church of the Transfiguration...
...welding torch was found beneath the roof, where work men had been repairing old timbers treated with inflammable linseed oil. Some angry Israelis suggested that, just as the Nazis had burned down the Reichstag and blamed it on the Communists, Al-Fatah terrorists had set fire to the shrine so that the Israelis could be blamed and emotions aroused throughout the Arab world...
...rollicking cheer of his welcome, the Pope was in Africa on serious business. His uppermost concern, he declared even before leaving Rome, was the bitter, two-year civil war between Nigeria and Biafra, but the trip had first been planned around the Pope's dedication of a shrine to 22 African martyrs.* He also consecrated twelve new African bishops and offered a thoughtful analysis of the African Church's spiritual role before a pan-African conference of Catholic prelates that had been meeting all week. Above all, the visit reaffirmed the Pope's concern for the future...
...with Nigerian and Biafran representatives in a vain attempt to mediate the Nigerian impasse-and had even offered to stay in Africa a month if it would help bring peace. He did not stay. On Saturday morning he joined Anglican dignitaries for a brief ecumenical service at their own shrine, then went on to the partially built shrine of the Roman Catholic martyrs, where nearly 100,000 people had gathered for the Mass of dedication. He baptized, confirmed and gave First Communion to 22 young Uganda converts, telling them that being a Christian was "a fine thing, but not always...