The second phase of the eruption has been followed by another outburst of religious fervour of redoubled intensity' on the part of the: inhabitants, same of whom are participating in processions, whi others, holding up "miraculous" relies, invoke the intercession of the saints. awe-inspiring midnight service hundreds of persons knelt om the ground and prayed aloud amid clouds of incandescent ashes, the ight of their flickering torchow adding to the reflection from the molten streams of lava, They brought forth a monument of the Madonna, which was hoisted facing. the voleano until a recrudescence of the eruption necessitated the statue being loaded on a lorry und hurried off so that destruction might not overtake it—Reuter.
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