Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that they may wind up with a fake masterpiece on their hands. Last week Sir Philip Hendy, director of London's august National Gallery, woke up to find that for him the dream had come true. A London art dealer had proved that the National Gallery's Virgin with Angel and Child by the 15th century Italian, Francesco Francia, was a fake...
...Mark 3:32-33 Christ's famed question has long been a poser to Biblical scholars. Roman Catholic teaching holds that Mary was perpetually a virgin, and there is an additional Roman Catholic tradition that Joseph was perpetually chaste. If so, who were Jesus' "brothers," named (together with unspecified "sisters") as James, Joseph, Jude and Simon...
...done if she had had real sons to look after her; 4) there is strong textual support for the view that the James and Joseph mentioned as Christ's brethren are the same James and Joseph elsewhere mentioned as the sons of Alpheus and Mary (sister of the Virgin Mary...
...Turning point was Dec. 12, 1531, when an Indian peasant named Juan Diego reported a vision of the Virgin Mary and showed his cloak on which there was an image of a dark-skinned Madonna above a crescent moon. The Virgin of Guadalupe became the patroness of Mexico, and on the site of the Aztec temple to Mother-Goddess Tonantzin, Mexicans built the basilica that became their national shrine...
...activities it got into because nobody else could or would. It liquidated the Island Trading Co., a copra and trading firm (1954 sales: $3,000,000) set up by U.S. occupation officials in the Southwest Pacific, at a net profit to the U.S. of $1,100,000. In the Virgin Islands the Government sold its rum distillery (Government House brand) and its famed resort hotel, Bluebeard's Castle...