A RELIGIOUS SPECTACLE
Scenes of religious fervour such as only Naples can stage were lately being enacted in that city. -'The famous "Living Virgin," the statue of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, which left Naples over 11,1 years ago, was^allowed by the Popo to return for a. few days before being taken to the Holy' Land. Naples abandoned its! ordinary pursuits to honour the..statue, which .is considered one of the most miraculous in j the world. Thousands of people visited it. Lame, blind, and other-sick persons were driven up in air kinds "of'conveyances, from luxurious motor-ears with liveried chauffeurs and footmen to tlie J shabby Neapolitan coster-carts drawn by scraggy horses and mules. The occupants, of all classes^', prostrated themselves at tho foot of tho statue to pray for1' health. s
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 8
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131A RELIGIOUS SPECTACLE Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 131, 30 November 1933, Page 8
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