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...return or be heard from again-but the curd he had started fermented after him. Two years later a statue of Marie Harel, or someone who was supposed to be Marie Harel, was unveiled at Vimoutiers by Alexandre Millerand, a former President of the Republic. It soon became a shrine for tourists, and also for local peasants, who often placed flowers at its feet and knelt in prayer for the secrets of properly ripened Camembert. Then, because of a G-2 mistake in World War II, both Marie and a good part of her village were blown to bits...
...huts, they see the morning sun dancing on the sea, and stately clouds crossing the horizon "like ancient gods." Teen-age Shinji is content to follow this age-old pattern of a life both dangerously and harmoniously close to nature. When he prays in the garden of the Yashiro shrine, he asks, "God, let the seas be calm, the fish plentiful, and ... in time let me become a fisherman among fishermen...
...lives of the poor was so squalidly real that at times her fellow nuns shrank from contact with her. She ate almost nothing, slept hardly at all and died in 1270 at 28. St. Benedict Labre was another dirty saint who spent most of his life tramping from shrine to shrine throughout 18th century Europe, sleeping in sheds or fields, eating meagerly of handouts and garbage, talking to virtually no one and smelling to high heaven. But when he died of a chill in Rome in 1783, "scarcely had he breathed his last when children in the street were heard...
...National Shrine. In Poznan, workers were back on their jobs full shift, and, as part of the appearance of leniency, were given a first installment "tax rebate" of 1,200,000 zlotys ($300,000 by official rates, $15,000 in fact). An anxious quiet settled over the city...
While visiting the Beethoven shrine, the great Paderewski on being asked to play the Moonlight Sonata on Beethoven's piano, modestly replied: "I am not worthy to touch it." But "Give 'em Hell" Harry sat right down and played a sonata of Mozart's on Mozart's own piano, right in front of Mozart's portrait. I can imagine the irascible ghost of Wagner muttering "Squirrelhead...