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From 1000 A. D. shrines and altars by the thousand were dedicated to Mary. To them the devout brought votive offerings, often silver and gold models of the man or the part of his body saved through the intervention of Mary.§ Those most devout reported that they had seen miracles, seen blood flowing from the statues of the Virgin, seen her eyes weeping in sorrow, seen her head lower or her hand raise in benediction. Over all Europe good Catholics lifted up their voices in "Ave Marias" as they counted out their prayers on well-worn rosaries...
Senorita Natalia Calles, daughter of President Plutarco Elias Calles is a devout Roman Catholic. So is her dashing sister, Ernestine (TIME, July 26). So is their mother. But President Calles has said: "No influence, national or international, including the grunts of the Pope, will cause the [Mexican] Government to vary its attitude [toward suppressing the Catholic clergy...
Although interested in medicine, she would not allow a male doctor to attend her. When her graduating gown was delayed, and a tactless youth offered to lend her his, she almost fainted. "What? Lady graduate in man's gown?" she said, and went back to China a devout Christian...
With the death of His Imperial Majesty Yoshihito Tenno (TIME, Jan. 3) there began last week the usual sacrifices of loyal subjects in his honor. Hundreds of young girls cut off their hair and burned it ceremoniously in the temples. Stalwart youths pierced veins and painted in blood devout ideographic prayers for the Tenno.* Finally Baron Mansasuke Ikeda, lifelong companion of the Tenno, set up a portrait of the "Heavenly King" in his house near Tokyo, cried, "I followed you in life, I follow you in death," and shot himself...
They came, last week, on the anniversary of Juan Diego's impression. Like him, they were mostly shirtless, but some few were devout Roman Catholics of wealth and consequence. Due to the anticlerical laws (TIME, Feb. 22) no Roman Catholic priest officiated at the shrine. Roman Catholic laymen, armed with batons, hurried the crowds past the Blessed Virgin's image. Peons who sought to crawl to and from the shrine on all fours were made to get up and walk lest they obstruct...