{"id":224354,"date":"2025-10-25T08:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224354\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T08:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T08:48:09","slug":"how-giovanni-strazzas-the-veiled-virgin-ended-up-in-a-remote-canadian-convent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/224354\/","title":{"rendered":"How Giovanni Strazza\u2019s “The Veiled Virgin” Ended Up in a Remote Canadian Convent"},"content":{"rendered":"

For many of us, Newfoundland is best known as a blotch of green on a transatlantic-flight map, reaching out from North America like a fist whose pinky reads, \u201cSt. John\u2019s.\u201d<\/p>\n

This sparsely populated region of Canada, where majestic cliffs plunge into orca- and iceberg-filled waters, remains remote and mysterious even more than 1,000 years after the Norse explorer Leif Erickson landed there.<\/p>\n

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