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...glittering escort of mounted, helmeted guardsmen, a shout of joy vaulted from their silence. Men who heard it said later that the cheer did not sound human, that the (lead must been been crying in it too. Children threw roses and violets. Sobbing men hid their faces and women knelt to pray. The American in the carriage tipped his silk hat and bowed stiffly...
...Lawrence, 150 miles from the doorway metropolis, lay Quebec City; its great grey stone citadel, whose guns had once guarded the New World for France, still frowned down on the narrow twisting streets of the Old Town. The habitant women in their dusty-black Sunday clothes still knelt to pray in ancient Chapelle des Augustines. With devout Americans they still trudged the 21 miles to the shrine of Ste. Anne de Beaupre on pilgrimage...
...attend High Mass at the Cathedral next door. La Paz is bewildered and aghast at the violence of the last weekend. There has been an immense religious revival. At last Friday's Mass for the dead of both sides, the Plaza was absolutely packed. Even the men knelt to the Host, a rare phenomenon in Spanish America...
...initiates-about 500 men and a few women-knelt before the Grand Dragon, and were thus granted (at $10 a head) the right to wear sheets and masks. Cried Grand Dragon Green: "We are revived...
...city churches and village chapels, pious Italians knelt last week and prayed for rain. The worst drought in centuries was now in its second year...