Word: cupertino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle Ages must have seemed sometimes like a miraculous three-ring circus. Saintly men and ladies flew through the air with the greatest of ease-sometimes even their personal effects followed them, as did the walking stick of Joseph of Cupertino-and sometimes, like the great St. Teresa of Avila, they had to be held down by main force. Bodies that should have been moldering in the grave were exhumed fresh and fragrant; sometimes they bled, as did that of St. John of the Cross when they cut off its finger. The Host at Mass once leapt by itself into...