Revered in this Catholic statelet as the birthplace of Bavarian Christianity, its Black Madonna is a place of pilgrimage, credited with all the usual miracles.
Talent will out, they say, whatever the tools that lie to hand, and in a sense they are right: Woods would destroy us with a single rusty five-iron found at the back of a garage, and Cartier-Bresson could have picked up a Box Brownie and done more with a roll of film — summoning his usual miracles of poise and surprise — than the rest of us would manage with a lifetime of Leicas.
Managed care has been demonstrated not to perform its usual cost control "miracles" with an elderly population (Medicare) or disadvantaged population (Medicaid).
In comments carried by Catholic News Service, Francis said he would bypass the usual requirement that a second miracle be verified to bestow sainthood.
When he died in 2005, mourners in St. Peter's Square chanted, "Sainthood now!" As for John XXIII, who died in 1963, Francis ditched the usual requirement that a second miracle be attributed to his posthumous intervention.
"For me the true miracle of relationships that break the usual mold is that the animal moderates its behavior because it's moved to".
POPE FRANCIS last week approved two of his predecessors for sainthood — John Paul II and John XXIII — fast-tracking the latter in spite of his having only one miracle to his credit rather than the usual two.
At least Saint-Andre will have had access to his players for two weeks rather than the usual one before the tournament kicks off this weekend, a minor miracle given the power of the French clubs.
When asked how he maintains his international notoriety while rarely leaving Jamaica, Vybz Kartel laughed and said, with his usual braggadocio, "We work with what we have, and we make miracles like Jesus".
Conway's crisply painted tableaux suggest something of the old religious miracle transported to the everyday world, or the apocalypse rendered in miniature rather than in the usual cinemaplex-screen scale.
