The old lady knelt, saying her 'Hail Mary'; She didn't believe - but among Catholics even the sceptical are courteous.

Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps - violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on.

But the great moment was over - here in Orizaba it was like Galilee between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection - all the enthusiasm had been spent.

Perhaps his laughter saved them - it must be difficult to shoot a laughing man: you have to feel important to kill.

Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

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