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On the last night of the siege, devout local women, led by their bishop, marched through the streets of old San Juan in a torchlight parade praying for deliverance.
At a press conference following the screening of his film Dogma , which will have its first public showing October 4 as part of the New York Film Festival, the writer, director, and professed devout Catholic Kevin Smith appeared both shell-shocked and befuddled by the outrage that his movie, sight unseen, had provoked.
Queen Helena, a devout Christian and the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land in 326 to identify the sites associated with Jesus’s life.
In the side halls there are shrines where the devout can appeal to the proper god to cure eye problems, ensure the birth of a son, pass an examination, get a good job, and increase longevity.
The monks — for this is a working monastery — are kept busy supplying joss (incense) sticks to devout or merely fun-loving visitors.