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...Pope spent three days in the shrine city, Czestochowa, where he led the ceremony of consecration to the Virgin. Inside the fortress-like Jasna Gora (Bright Mountain) monastery is the Black Madonna painting, attributed by legend to St. Luke. "There are people and nations. Mother," the Pontiff prayed, "that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence. I entrust them to you in the way that you know best." Poles believe that prayer to her image by the Jasna Gora monks staved off invading Swedish armies in 1655. Since 1656 Mary...
...with Poland's past pains and glories. The tour was to include his home town of Wadowice, Cracow, where he served as Archbishop, and Czestochowa, his country's holiest shrine, which contains the painting of the Black Madonna. Temporal leaders have come and gone, but the Virgin has remained for 323 years "Krolowa Polski"(the Queen of Poland).*Finally the Pope will visit Auschwitz, a symbol of Nazi infamy and to Poles a reminder of the estimated 6 million Poles, 3 million of them Jews, who died during the second World...
...portrait was credited with miraculously raising a siege of the Czestochowa monastery by Swedes in 1655 after priests prayed to the Virgin...
Working with 75,000 virgin female roaches, Persoons gleaned a precious 200 millionths of a gram of periplanone B. That was enough for him to analyze the compound and to work out a possible structure for it. Then Chemist W. Clark Still at Columbia University synthesized a compound so potent that a drop could stimulate close to one million tons of male roaches...
...feeling that she thinks television is a dirty business, period, and she has to save us from ourselves by cleaning house." Another opinion is that her IBM training will be of limited use at NBC. Says a former executive at a TV production company: "Jane Pfeiffer is a virgin who comes out of the structured school. I'm not sure the structured school works in the entertainment business...