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...As she went from convent art teacher to unlikely pop-art star and vocal civil-rights activist, she was Corita Kent. Finally, on leaving the order at the age of 50, she became simply Corita....
...In 1545, Grand Duke Cosimo de Medici bought ground for a garden of medicinal herbs from Dominicans whose San Marco convent still stands nearby....
...By then, white anemones had already been painted in the ground of the garden in Fra Angelico’s great Annunciation in the Medici’s favourite Florentine convent....
...Quiet and diminutive, Teena bowed her head of thin blonde hair and mumbled the words of the rosary she didn’t know. Anne Marie, Ireland Anne Marie passed the man’s picture to the girl next to her....
...It can easily fuel our vainglory.”...
...By the end of March, all but 27 of Oscar’s 300 staff had been put on furlough. “We decided not to pay our landlords and delayed payments to our vendors and had fights with everybody,” says Bolen....
...“Before the pandemic we used to reach our audiences with crowds of 2,000-plus,” says Max Hodge, the executive director of Boston Ballet. Covid meant a total rethink to retain audiences....
...“People were curious about this beautiful outsider who didn’t play bridge or go to parties like the other ladies,” says Ida....
...He is planning to add a rose garden dedicated to Mary, mother of God, as Our Lady of Consolation....
...Some part of Madonna communicates from her inner child to our own....
...The act I saw was an accomplished trumpeter (and Lady Gaga collaborator) called Brian Newman, who has a pleasant singing voice, a repertoire of standards and improbably immobile hair....
...“That, ladies and gentlemen… is the last thing that they are… They’re pretty well organised. They know what they’re up to. They’re adept; they’re cunning.” Turner has a different view....
...Clare Connor, managing director of women’s cricket for the England and Wales Cricket Board, said: “Our sport owes so much to its pioneers and Eileen was one of them.” tony.barber@ft.com...
...One of the hospital’s benefactors, Lady Elizabeth Mortimer, a hunchbacked Scottish landowner, gives Lily her surname (and very little else)....
...In Ireland, rosary vigils for peace were being held as two armies faced each other under an increasingly uneasy truce....
...The Ladies’ and Flower Markets are nearby Not so good for: Waffle-haters....
...The Ursuline Convent of the Sacred Heart in Toledo and the Dominican Sisters of Peace based in Columbus, Ohio, want the Securities and Exchange Commission to reverse its plans to introduce rules that would...
..., where they once hung a rosary....
...With the dissolution of the convents in 16th-century England, families were deprived of the “convenient practice” of “cloistering unmarriageable girls”, Richardson explains....
...In which novel does the heroine make an Easter trip to Rosings Park, home of Lady Catherine de Bourgh?...
...The best gift I’ve given recently was a set of our Wolseley bevelled crystal coupes as a hostess present. I am totally a coupe person rather than a flute one....
...By that time, I was in form four at a rural Dominican convent....
...She leaves her husband and son for a long-frustrated career as a journalist and takes on the case of murdered African-American waitress Cleo Sherwood, the lady in the lake....
...Outstanding is “Portrait of a Dominican Friar”, the balding bursar of a Venetian convent pausing from his account books to survey us with a wily, perplexed glance....
...One of the most famous "recent" examples is Our Lady of Fatima, who appeared to three Portuguese children between 1916 and 1917....
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