Word: basilicas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They come by the tens of thousands, bringing balloons and flowers and images of the Virgin Mary. At the gateway to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, at the northern edge of Mexico City, many of the Roman Catholic pilgrims drop to their knees to shuffle painfully forward as they pray for forgiveness. On any day there are crowds at this most venerated shrine in the Americas, but on Dec. 12, the Day of Guadalupe, the crowds turn into a tidal wave of humanity. This week for the first time the day is being celebrated in a huge...
...There was little choice but to build a new shrine. The one erected in 1709 held only 2,000 people, and it was sinking in the spongy soil. The badly cracked structure will now be shored up and preserved as a museum. The new $24 million concrete and marble basilica is supported by 1,000 subterranean pillars and can hold 20,000 people without a single column obstructing the view of the altar. "Thousands of pilgrims want to get a glimpse of Our Lady's image at the same time," explains its architect, Pedro Ramirez Vazquez...
...square feet of floor space, St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is the largest church in the world. Next come the Seville Cathedral, St. John's, and the cathedrals in Liverpool, Milan and Washington...
...Navarro the lineup of military forces that might confront each other in the Spanish Sahara. At one point the Archbishop of Zaragoza, Pedro Cantero Cuadrado, spread across Franco's bed the gold-embroidered cloak that usually adorns the wooden statue of the Virgin Mary in Zaragoza's Basilica of Our Lady of Pilar. As the archbishop described it, the dictator opened his eyes, wept and kissed the cape-which is reputed to have healing powers...
...renowned archaeologist; in Rome. A professor at Rome's Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology from 1925 to 1970, Josi took part in dozens of digs through Italy's catacombs and ancient graveyards in search of relics of early Christianity, most notably the 1939 excavation beneath the Vatican Basilica, in which the tomb of St. Peter was eventually found...