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Most of the worshippers at St. Francis of Assisi are transients: out-of-towners, hotel guests, office workers, commuters and clients of St. Anthony, whose National Shrine is the lower church. Though the two churches hold only 1,355 at a time, it is a poor Sunday that 5,000 don't hear Mass there- there are 13 Masses every Sunday. Its staff of 60 priests hears about half a million confessions a year. On holy days (26 Masses), attendance usually climbs to something over 20,000. Sometimes seven and eight Masses are said at the same time...
...Reader Cunningham judge for himself. TIME'S correspondent has visited the uncompleted shrine near Val D'Or, found it busy. The shrine's spring of "holy water" did not suddenly gush forth; it has always been there. Pierrette's most highly regarded "miracle"-restoring speech to the mute son, aged seven, of a local truck driver-is questionable. He was never mute, does not yet talk spontaneously -just repeats words. Says TIME'S correspondent: "The inhabitants of this thriving pioneer mining town [TIME, Sept. 24] now are wondering about a different kind of future...
...world shrine, a gigantean granite Altar to Freedom, will rise 250 feet. . . . Each column of the vast colonnade . . . will commemorate a martyr of Lidice. Outside . . . fountains of crystal water will play. And under the floor of the great court will be many chapels, each dedicated to one of the religions of the world...
Honorable Silkworm. Like any modan (Japanese adaptation of "modern") city, Tokyo was dotted with open parks. But the monuments in the parks rarely commemorated historic figures. More frequently they were sacred to deified animals and trees. In the center of the city was a shrine to Inari, the god of harvests, and his servant, the fox. Inari & Fox did a mail-order business (literally) in charms against witchcraft. The cotton plant and the silkworm were annually feted because they gave their lives for humanity...
First the Emperor himself formally notified the spirits enshrined in the three sanctuaries of the Imperial palace. Then Prince Kimiteru Sanjo, court ritualist, took a full day at the Ise shrine, notifying the spirits of the outer shrine in the morning, the inner shrine in the afternoon. Count Kinto Muromachi passed the word to Hirohito's first Imperial ancestor, Jimmu, great-great-grandfather Ninko, greatgrandfather Komei and grandfather Meiji...