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In June 1999, Pope John Paul II visited his homeland for the eighth time as Pope, and he was again received by enormous crowds, proof once again that Poland’s committed Catholics and fervent patriots had survived the Communist years with their faith and pride intact.
A monument to 26 Christian martyrs executed in 1597 (at the beginning of Japan’s repression of Catholicism) includes a small museum displaying relics, including a communion wafer that has survived in dehydrated form since the 17th century.
Few of Santarém’s monuments have survived, although the Jesuit seminary and church on the main square, the triangular Largo Sá da Bandeira, has an impressive 17th-century baroque façade.
People think I'm kidding when I say that my favorite film is The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), but I can't imagine how I'd have survived an especially grisly puberty without the comfort of watching Boris Karloff express his anguish to an uncomprehending world through a misshapen body and halting language.
Much of the town was badly damaged in the Battle for Crete during WWII, though the heart of the old town survived.