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2. What creatures did the soul have to overcome?                                                 TEXT VIII
3. Why was the ferryman called Turnface?
4. What is the procedure of being the dead man acquitted?             Read the text and do all the tasks given below.
5. Was the life in the nether world similar to the earth one?
                                                                                      WHAT MIRACLES MEAN

                                                                                    Woven into the history of the world’s religions, miracles are more
                                                                         about faith than fact. In «The Book of Miracles», NEWSWEEK»s Kenneth L.
                                                                                    Woodward explains why so many people believe the unbelievable.

                                                                        A decade ago, at the age of 12, Bernadette McKenzie found that
                                                                she could no longer stand upright, even after three operations. She suf-
                                                                fered from a tethered spinal cord, a rare congenital condition causing
                                                                constant pain. The nuns at her school in suburban Philadelphia began a
                                                                series of prayers, seeking the intercession of their deceased founder,
                                                                Mother Frances de Sales Aviat, whom they regard as a saint. On the
                                                                fourth day, Bernadette herself knelt by her bed, telling God that if this
                                                                was to be her life she would accept it. But she wanted to know – a sign.
                                                                If she were to walk again, she pleaded, let her favorite song, «Forever
                                                                Young,» play next on the radio. It did. She immediately jumped up and
                                                                ran downstairs to tell her family. Bernadette didn’t even notice that her
                                                                physical symptoms had disappeared, something her doctors say is
                                                                medically inexplicable. Her recovery is currently being evaluated by the
                                                                Vatican as a possible miracle.
                                                                        Does God answer prayers? Do miracles – extraordinary events
                                                                that are the result of special acts of God – really happen? Last week
                                                                Christians and Jews around the globe celebrated the miracle stories cen-
                                                                tral to each faith: the resurrection of Jesus at Easter and the deliverance
                                                                of the Israelites at Passover. But are miracles now merely stories from
                                                                long ago and – intellectually – very far away?
                                                                        Not to millions of believers worldwide. Every week of the year,
                                                                somewhere in the world, believers gather to celebrate the miraculous
                                                                deeds that God or the gods, a saint or a sage, worked on behalf of the
                                                                faithful. Many Jews and Buddhists, as well as Christians, Hindus and
                                                                Muslims, still look for – and, by their own accounts, experience – mi-
                                                                raculous interventions in their lives. True, many people consider stories
                                                                like Bernadette’s hopeless superstition, or mere coincidence. But many
                                                                others allow for the possibility of the miraculous. According to a new

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