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...sense it scarcely matters, for what is most significant about the star of Bethlehem is not whether it existed or what it was, but what it symbolizes. Spangling the night sky, the unattainable stars have always invoked reverence and wonder. It was natural for those recording the birth of Christ to associate the event with a star. Even today a star, gleaming over a creche or twinkling from the top of a Christmas tree, remains the emblem of hope. "It is not difficult to understand why a star was chosen as a symbol to mark the birth of Christ," muses...
...family of Jesus Christ is incomplete so long as one of us is missing. Won't you please join us?" Responding to this half-page newspaper ad and similar appeals, 12,000 Roman Catholics in the Memphis area-one-fourth of the local diocese's membership-turned out at the city's Mid-South Coliseum. They created a rare Sunday afternoon traffic jam that delayed the rites for a half-hour. The event, unprecedented in U.S. Catholicism, was a "Day of Reconciliation." It offered sacramental absolution without individual confession to all participants, both practicing Catholics and those...
...Mormon will, however, has been taken seriously. It is so nicknamed because it appeared mysteriously, three weeks after Hughes' death, on the desk of a public relations officer in the Salt Lake City headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The scrawled writing on the envelope instructed David O. McKay, president of the Mormons from 1951 to 1970, to deliver it to the clerk of Clark County in Las Vegas?a city whose glitter had attracted Hughes. Handwritten and partly smudged, the document runs for three pages and is filled with misspellings (cildren for children...
...graphic portrait of the medieval mind, frozen at a time (circa 1500) when thought was beginning to shift from heaven to earth. Thus while the tapestries tell the story of a bridegroom brought to the altar and of the death and resurrection of Christ, they also show the realistic hunt of a wholly believable unicorn. Margaret B. Freeman, a former curator of the Cloisters, has written a scholarly and enthralling analysis of the tapestries, including an explanation of the weaving techniques that were used to produce one of the glories of Western...
...medieval drama class staged three original student translations of the Passion Plays in a Cambridge church last night, including a re-enactment of the crucifixion of Christ...