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...Mike Aquilina, who attends Holy Child Church outside Pittsburgh, Pa., estimates that he fulfills the requirements for an indulgence a few times a year by visiting a saintly burial site Stateside or St. Peter's Basilica when he's in Rome on business. "God doesn't get anything out of it, the Church doesn't get anything out of it - but I sure do," says Aquilina...
...downtown Springfield. This massive granite edifice, decorated with statues cast from melted cannons and topped by an obelisk rising 117 feet, is a testament to the enormous place Lincoln occupies in America's heart and memory. As if to remind us, though, of Lincoln's genius for understatement, his burial marker inside is starkly simple - a name and two dates...
...that nowadays might require nothing more than a Zoloft prescription and some couch time. The patients' conditions listed in hospital records include "worries about sex" and "worries about money" - "things everyone walks around with today," Maisel says. When these patients died, their relatives either had no money for a burial or no interest in claiming the bodies...
...time. Mumbai's influential Hindu right-wing went missing, knowing its brand of extremism wasn't welcome. Soon after the last shots were fired, the city's leading Muslim clerics showed their contempt for the act, declaring that the bodies of the terrorists would not be allowed a proper burial within Mumbai...
...Samuel Huntington is survived by Mrs. Huntington; two sons, Nicholas P. Huntington ’87 and Timothy M. Huntington ’83; and four grandchildren. A private burial service will be held on Martha's Vineyard...