August31, 1688—; John Bunyan, author of Pilgrim's Progress dies at age 60, at the home of a friend in Holborn after a ride through the rain from Reading to London.
August31, 1867—; Charles Baudelaire, French poet, dies in Paris at age 46 of aphasiac and hemiplagiac in his mother's arms.
August31, 1964—; Rocky Marciano, former boxing heavyweight champion dies in plane crash in Iowa.
Rome, 31 (NE) With a solemn procession followed by a crowded Eucharistic celebration, the faithful of Canale D´Agordo, home land of Pope John Paul I, recalled the figure of the Pontiff with great emotion during the celebration of a new anniversary of his election to Peter's Cathedra, on August 26, 1978.
Buenos Aires, 31 (NE) Last Thursday the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe arrived to Cordoba, Argentina, in the framework of its pilgrimage through the whole continent, which began in 1992 and will conclude on December 12 in the Basilica of Lujan.
On exhibition since last August 12 with the theme "Lord, I seek your face", the shroud has been a point of pilgrimage for thousands of people, many of whom consider it the authentic shroud that covered the Lord in His sepulcher, a belief that the most recent scientific investigations support with ever increasing conviction.
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