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...final insult to Munch, his house was demolished last year because it was considered ugly, whereas Ibsen's study is preserved intact in Oslo's Folkmuseum, and Grieg's house, in Bergen, is a national shrine. The often-quoted ". . . A prophet is not without honor save in his own country"* has never been more appropriate...
...Propagation of the Faith. Philomena was also one of the favorite saints of St. Jean Vianney (1786-1859), France's famed Curé d'Ars, who called her his "dear little saint" and his "agent in heaven." In recent times some 300,000 tourists have visited her shrine at Mugnano del Cardinale each year, and countless churches have been dedicated to her-more than 100 in the U.S. alone...
...been crying all day," said Sister Marie Helene of Mother Seton Sisters of Charity in Greensburg, Pa., who has devoted 45 years to St. Philomena's cause, has written a book about her (St. Philomena, Powerful with God), and raised $10,000 to build a shrine to Philomena on the campus of Greensburg's Seton Hill College...
...children in the back seat, puts a comic book in the hands of each, and joins the opening charge of the yearly 5,5000,000-tourist attack on Washington D.C. This season the visitors get to see a substantial change-the first in a century-in a major public shrine: the new east front of the Capitol, topped by the freshly sandblasted 200-ft. dome...
Welch, pink-faced and natty at 61, was booked into Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium by the Freedom Club of the First Congregational Church. At $1 each, all 6,658 seats were sold out ten days in advance. Ninety minutes before speech time, crowds of young, well-dressed Birchites began lining up at the doors and muttering at a handful of desultory pickets: "Go back to New York." In his speech, sponsored on television by Dr. Ross dog food, Welch droned like a P.T.A. treasurer, but fascinated his audience as he declared that some 7,000 members...