Word: virginals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Altar. Last fortnight Sanchez hid himself in the church which houses the Virgin's shrine. Trembling in the darkness, he waited until midnight, then began to climb the altar. Several candelabra, he testified, fell near him "without anybody having touched them...
Bathed in sweat, his head reeling, he huddled at the foot of the altar until the church was opened at dawn, then crept out with the ornaments wrapped in a parcel under his arm. Said Sanchez last week: "I wanted to build at home an image of the Virgin and Child, decorate them with the jewels, then adore them when they behaved well, and spank them when they behaved badly...
Down the Road. When Padre Luis Leon entered the church to say the first Mass of the day, he discovered the desecration, hastily called police. The stolen jewels were only worth about $500 (the Virgin's $30,000 full-dress outfit is kept under lock except for days of special devotion), but they had to be recovered at once; the archbishop himself was paying a visit that day. Police Chief Luis Proafio forbade all cars to leave the village, went out to search with Padre Leon. Some miles down the road, they were hailed by a man standing with...
...jail in Quito last week, Sanchez, still burning with fever, said: "My conscience troubles me continuously, and at every moment I remember what I did." Fingering the Virgin's medal at his breast, he sighed: "I do not believe any longer the Virgin will take me out of jail; maybe some charitable person will have mercy on my bitter situation...
...Jerusalem's Mount Zion, just outside the Old City, stands the towering white stone Church of the Dormition of Mary. Traditionally the place where the Blessed Virgin died, the site has long been one of the holy places of Christendom. In the Arab-Israeli fighting it has also been a prime military objective, last occupied by Israeli troops as a strategic outlook post...