Word: virgin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...over the country, customarily cheerful ticos were wrapped in deepest gloom. "The Most Sacred Little Black One," said by tradition to have been given by the Virgin to a negro slave girl at the site of the basilica more than 300 years ago, is Costa Rica's most venerated relic. Costa Ricans took what hope they could from the old legend that the image had disappeared once before in colonial days, only to turn up again...
Near midnight President Otilio Ulate arrived to join the crowd packed into the steaming church. Archbishop Sanabria celebrated Mass; brilliantly illuminated in her golden monstrance above the altar,, the black Virgin smiled down once more on her flock. In the first joyful hours, only the archbishop and the police seemed to remember the murder and the missing gold and jewels...
...wall and departed. At the Zi' Cori, a tiny refreshment room, Pretti wiped the dust from the red Coca-Cola disc, stopped to listen to the woes of the proprietress' daughter: her fiancé had been called to arms, and in order to persuade the Blessed Virgin to keep the young man from harm, the girl had-as a special sacrifice-given up her daily quota of a dozen Cokes. "She has become as thin as a nail," wailed her mother, "and I have been afraid she would...
...exuberant style. For Tintoretto, the composition was curiously static and as flatly arranged as a department-store window. But the figures were brilliantly conceived. "It's a corker," crowed Museum Director George Edgell. "I don't think I've ever seen so lovely a Virgin...
Pietro Pasqualucci has played the grueling part of Christ several times before. Since the war, he has been out of his accountant's job, from which he was fired as a Fascist. Laura Calderozzi, also a veteran actress, and now a mother of six, again played the Virgin Mary. One of the few Communists in a major role was Moses. A few days before the play's single performance, he surprised his fellow actors by announcing that he had decided to rejoin the church...