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Times
22-05-2025
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- Times
Body of St Teresa draws tens of thousands to Spanish church
'She looks good for her age,' said a pilgrim moments after gazing upon the corpse of St Teresa of Avila, who has been dead for more than 440 years. Beholding the desiccated remains of the Spanish mystic in the flesh, as it were, moved many of the faithful to comment approvingly on her physical state. 'She's muy chiquitita [very small], the señora,' said a middle-aged woman in the Venecia bar at Alba de Tormes, where in the Carmelite convent's basilica the saint's corpse, dressed in the habit of her order and reposed in an open silver coffin, has been exhibited for the past two weeks. Nearly 70,000 people — rich and poor, dukes and nuns — have flocked from across Spain and as far
Times
22-05-2025
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- Times
Nan Shepherd is on £5 note — buy her home for 100,000 of them
For more than eight decades one of Scotland's greatest mystic poets and novelists of the 20th century lived in an elegant Victorian granite five-bedroom semi on the outskirts of Aberdeen. Nan Shepherd spent her life in Dunvegan, in Cults, with its lush gardens and great bay windows opening up spectacular views of Lower Deeside. Now the property where she moved shortly after she was born and only left shortly before her death at 88 in 1981 is up for sale, at offers over £490,000. The writer, whose work has enjoyed a 21st-century resurgence in popularity and respect, inherited the home from her wealthy parents. Coming of age during the First World War — when men were in short supply — Shepherd never married. But, eschewing
Yahoo
20-05-2025
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- Yahoo
Your Daily Couples Horoscope for May 20, 2025
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