The frenzy is so intense that every souvenir shop along this city's cobblestone streets has Nordiques paraphernalia hanging in the window.

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Even as images on cards, or as ornaments hanging in a window, angels perform their age-old function as messengers and mediators between the seen and unseen, or material and spiritual, worlds.

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Children playing in a nearby garden saw her hanging from her bedroom window in the multi-storey block.

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