YUZA, Yamagata -- Traditional "amahage" demon deities recently visited some 20 homes in this northern Japan town to warn ...

“People have a feeling of being protected by this burial site,” says Morihide Naka, Shinto priest of the Konda Hachimangu shrine that conducts the rite, in which about 1,000 locals participate.

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14, 1975. Now, 50 years later, the National Shrine of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in Emmitsburg, Maryland, has begun its yearlong celebration honoring the anniversary of the saint’s canonization.