The Miracle Of Our Lady Of Fatima is a feature film made in 1952. It was promoted as a fact-based treatment of the events surrounding the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima in 1917. It starred Susan Whitney as Lucia dos Santos, Sammy Ogg as Francisco Marto, and Sherry Jackson, as Jacinta Marto, with Gilbert Roland as a fictional character named Hugo, a kindly but agnostic friend of the three children, who rediscovered his faith in God through the Solar Miracle of Fatima. The musical score by Max Steiner received an Academy Award nomination. The film was released on DVD on April 4, 2006. THIS MOVIE AVAILABLE IN VHS or DVD (click link below) www.juncd.com
Part of a homily given by Fr. Angelo Mary Geiger FI at the Basilca of the Immaculate Conception in Washington DC, on Monday 22nd Jan 07, before joining the March for Life
Sophisticated Lady – Bert Brandsma swing trio. Music Festival : Te Gast in Garnwerd. Winfred Buma – guitar Bert van Erk – bass Zie ook bertsbreeze : www.bertvanerk.nl Bert Brandsma – alto saxophone Winfred Buma teaches jazz guitar at the conservatory in Groningen. Bert Brandsma met him when he studied classical and jazz saxophone there, from 1987 till 1992. “Sophisticated Lady” is a jazz standard, composed as an instrumental in 1932 by Duke Ellington, to which words were added by Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills. The words met with approval from Ellington, who described them as “wonderful — but not entirely fitted to my original conception.” That original conception was inspired by three of Ellington’s grade school teachers. “They taught all winter and toured Europe in the summer. To me that spelled sophistication.” Whom was Duke Ellington referring to when he wrote “Sophisticated Lady”? Amy Alexander Houston, Texas Amy, A good guess would be his mom, Daisy Kennedy Ellington. History tells us that she was a beautiful, intelligent, educated woman who doted on her son, Edward Kennedy Ellington (1899-1974). Duke worshiped Daisy, but his 1932 masterpiece was not written about her or any one woman in particular. Rather, the tune was actually a composite musical sketch of three women—three of young Ellington’s grade school teachers in the U Street neighborhood of Washington DC “They taught all winter and toured Europe in the summer. To me that spelled sophistication,” Duke said …
