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Dates: during 1940-1949
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New Beds. From all over Christendom pilgrims visit him (some 80,000 are expected during the coming Holy Year), and the church values Padre Pio for his potent influence on the faithful. His mail is voluminous; five of his brother monks are busy from morning to night answering letters addressed...
At the monastery of San Giovanni Rotondo, near Foggia in southeast Italy, 62-year-old Padre Pio now rises at 2 each morning, prays for three hours and begins Mass at 5:30. Though Mass is normally a matter of some 30 minutes, he may take an hour and a...
*But the words of St. Paul (Galatians 6:17), "From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus," have led to some speculation that he may have carried the stigmata (Latin for marks).
An Ambitious Program. To preserve incentives, N.A.M. wanted the U.S. to 1) abolish present excise taxes except on tobacco and liquor, and substitute a uniform manufacturer's excise tax on all end products excluding foods; 2) limit the 1951 budget to $33.6 billion (some $11 billion below present estimates...
¶ In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., several thousand children gathered at Stranahan Field to see Santa parachute from a plane hired by the Chamber of Commerce. As he floated down, the children screamed in terror; a gust of wind wafted Santa onto some power lines nearby (see cut). Unhurt, Santa was...