Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talked about the miraculous appearance of the Virgin at Lourdes as they walked home to the small village of Heroldsbach (pop. 1,100) where they lived. Suddenly one of them let out a scream. As they described it later, first she, then the others, saw a light and a vision of the Virgin. "Mother Mary came to us," they told their parents when they got home...
Soon they could see Christ and a galaxy of saints on any clear night. The hillside was equipped with floodlights, and a public address system was installed to broadcast reports of the visions to the waiting crowds. Pilgrims contributed heavily for the shrines and other local improvements urged by the "vision children" on "instructions" which the Virgin passed on to them. Packed inns and crowded souvenir shops lifted Heroldsbach's 1,100 inhabitants to a wild zenith of prosperity...
...Modest Vision. In their 16 years in the capital, John and Ivo Sparkman have built themselves a quiet, pleasant life. His wife, who dislikes housework, is on the federal payroll at about $3,000 a year as a secretary in Sparkman's office. They live in a three-bedroom, white brick house in Washington's Spring Valley, which they bought in 1948. Their only child, handsome, 28-year-old Julia Ann (who plans to campaign for her dad), lives with them at present: her husband, Navy Lieut. Commander Tazewell Shepard Jr., is awaiting orders to carrier duty...
...social whirl, John Sparkman relaxes by gardening, sometimes shoots a "terrible" game of golf (low 100s). A staunch Methodist, he teaches an adult Bible class at Washing ton's Hamline Church. (In 1944, when asked to describe his idea of Heaven, Sparkman offered this modest vision: ". . . Heaven must afford an opportunity of again meeting . . . our loved ones ... I am sure that in Heaven there must be an opportunity for purposeful work, always with a glorious accomplishment rather than a failure as the result...
...back in Antioch. In no time, they are walking the dog together and billing & cooing over a hoped-for manchild. As for the chalice, it is soon stolen, never to be seen again, but a "miracle" enables Basil to finish the casing: he sees, and carves on it, a vision of Jesus. Author Costain's own vision of all this comes pretty close to reducing early Christianity to soap opera...