title: Cathedral: An Illness and a Healing
author: Bill Henderson
description: Pushcart Prize editor Bill Henderson has written a tale of faith and survival, a fascinating history of cathedral building, life in a small town in Maine and the struggle against cancer and the "pride" of despair. But most moving is that of a man's faith in love and family and the regeneration hope brings. It's a memorable and inspiring book.<br /> - <strong>Philip Schultz, Pulitzer Prize winning author of My Dylexia and The Wherewithal</strong><br /><br />A pithy, poignant chronicle about the abbeys we build in duress and inspiration.<br /> - <strong>Edward Hoagland</strong>
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  The Miraculous Revenge
  
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  # The Miraculous Revenge
  
  
  ### George Bernard Shaw
  
  
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  I arrived in Dublin on the evening of the 5th of August, and drove
  
  
  to the residence of my uncle, the Cardinal Archbishop. He is, like
  
  
  most of my family, deficient in feeling, and consequently cold to me
  
  
  personally. He lives in a dingy house, with a side-long view of the
  
  
  portico of his cathedral from the front windows, and of a monster
  
  
  national school from the back. My uncle maintains no retinue. The
  
  
  people believe that he is waited upon by angels. When I knocked at the
  
  
  door, an old woman, his only servant, opened it, and informed me that
  
  
  her master was then officiating in the cathedral, and that he had
  
  
  directed her to prepare dinner for me in his absence.
  
  
  An unpleasant smell of salt fish made me ask her what the dinner
  
  
  consisted of. She assured me 