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Kolbe was put in a starvation cell with nine others, then finally dispatched on Aug. 14, 1941 with an injection of phenol. Just a year ago, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope Paul VI had declared him "Blessed," the most important single step in creating a saint. Last week's celebration in Poland marked the first anniversary of Kolbe's beatification, and the man he had saved -bent, white-haired Franciszek Gajowniczek, 69-was among the first to speak. "I want to express my thanks," he said haltingly, "for the gift of life...
Planned by God. Construction is already under way at the hill on an immense pilgrimage center "designed entirely by the Blessed Trinity," according to the weekly newsletter of St. Joseph's Hill of Hope Corp. The center will include a basilica, seminary, retreat house, pilgrim house, hospital, monastery, museum, amphitheater, restaurant and religious goods store. "God approves everything, even how the buildings will look," says one of Fran's aides. If so, the Trinity must be taking lessons from Walt Disney. Leading across a ravine to the basilica will be the "Examination of Conscience" bridge, on which sins...
...crowds cheered him from ancient balconies and sinking quays last Saturday, Pope Paul VI was ferried in a gondola from the mouth of Venice's Grand Canal to the quay of St. Mark's. Beneath the gleaming mosaics of the basilica, he prayed briefly, addressed a throng assembled in the Piazza San Marco, and then journeyed to nearby Udine to celebrate an open-air Mass at the 18th National Eucharistic Congress. In keeping with his pledge to be "an apostle on the move," the Pope made his 15th trip outside the environs of Rome, his sixth within Italy...
...million emergency fund for the restoration of Venice, raised abroad by Minister of Public Works Mario Ferrari Aggradi, lies unused while dozens of local and national agencies squabble over their slices of it. Another example: the frescoes by Cimabue, Giotto, Simone Martini and Pietro Lorenzetti in the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi. Under the 1929 Concordat between Mussolini and the Holy See, the basilica and convent of Assisi were to be given back to the Vatican. But the Holy See refused to accept them unless the buildings and their irreplaceable frescoes were wholly restored. The Italian government agreed. After...
...dreary walls of lava stone buildings. Merchants reported a rush on licorice drops, peanuts, chewing gum, after-dinner mints and other tobacco substitutes. A man of God?his own flesh too weak to relinquish the weed completely?preached a sermon of support from his pulpit in the town's basilica. "I am not one of the courageous 155," acknowledged Father Leon Dumas. "But I have rationed myself down from ten to five cigarettes...