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Sickly little Gilbert Godard, a grocer's assistant, did not impress his neighbors in Chaumont (near Dijon) as the kind of man who might make a pilgrimage to the shrine of the Virgin at Lourdes. Twice married, once divorced, he had never been seen at Mass. Nonetheless, it looked to a lot of pious folk in Chaumont last week as if Gilbert Godard, pilgrim to Lourdes, had been granted a miracle...
Stevenson wound up his day in Los Angeles with a speech in the Shrine Auditorium. Then he set off on the final leg of his Western trip, a hasty one-day swing through Arizona and New Mexico. In Phoenix he complained that Republicans would not debate some of "the solemn questions" facing the U.S. "Their whole campaign," he gibed, "reminds me of a phonograph record that monotonously repeats 'I love you, I love you, I love you' -and adds 'honey chile' and a rebel yell when the caravan moves South." In Albuquerque he warned against...
Last week hundreds of Basque parish priests gathered for devotions and conferences at the mountain shrine of Our Lady of Aranzazu, by tradition the patroness of the Basque nation. For more than 500 years Aranzazu's monastery has been a wellspring of Basque culture. It remains so today. Its 128 cloistered Franciscan friars are outside the jurisdiction of the Spanish bishops. Although armed civil guardsmen are posted around their monastery, Franco's government has never dared to invade...
...days later, they left the monastery to go down to their scattered parishes, their faith renewed by the monastery's support. Said one, caressing a small green, white and red ribbon (for the Basque national colors) pinned on his rough cassock: "While there is one Franciscan at the shrine of Our Lady of Aranzazu, the Basque culture will...
Last week the Casino's guiding fathers decided that American tennis has gone too long without an official shrine. They voted to turn one of their rambling old buildings, recently used as a storehouse, into a tennis Hall of Fame. Said Casino President James H. Van Alen: "The Casino is to tennis what Cooperstown, N.Y. is to baseball and Rutgers University is to football...