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It's a two-hour drive from Tehran and we get to Masoumeh's shrine about nine in the morning.
She will be buried in Najaf, the site of the holiest Shiite shrine, about 100 miles south of Baghdad.
It would have taken her many hours to get there: in 10 hours since her arrival at Karachi's airport, Miss Bhutto's convoy had crept 5miles (8km) towards the shrine – about half the distance.Taliban militants, who control a swathe of north-western Pakistan near the border with Afghanistan, were possibly behind the massacre.
Pick up a glittery, kitschy Our Lady of Guadalupe box shrine (about 155 pesos) and don't miss the adjacent flower market, a dank but fascinating rabbit warren of cement stalls displaying over-the-top arrangements like a lion's head made out of yellow spider mums.
Thousands of people gather in a sports arena in Konya — the site of Rumi's shrine, about 450 miles southeast of Istanbul — each December to commemorate the saint's death through a week of dancing and whirling.
The next morning, they carry elaborate shrines about two miles to the Chettiar Hindu Temple.
If there is a God, then His patience in not reaching down and slapping the pilgrims who descend on these shrines about the head with a giant hand is at least the equal of the Abbey Road drivers.
The Yasukuni Shrine honors about 2.5 million Japanese war dead, including executed criminals like the war-era Prime Minister Hideki Tojo.
In the days preceding his induction into the Hockey Hall of Fame today, Vyacheslav Fetisov wandered the halls of the shrine, reading about the select group of members he would soon join.
The current dispute centers on a warren of old houses and twisting stone streets near the Shiite shrine, where about 1,500 people, most of them Sunni Muslims, have lived and worked for generations.
In 1948 she entered the Carmelite order at Coimbra, Portugal, and, on the 50th anniversary (May 13 , 1967 of the first vision, she accompanied Pope Paul VI to the shrine with about one million pilgrims.
