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  • NYT: This Time, It's the Faithful Hero That Needs the Rescue (GREAT ST. BERNARD PASS JOURNAL)

    10/29/2004 3:32:06 PM PDT · by OESY · 5 replies · 519+ views
    New York Times ^ | October 29, 2004 | IAN FISHER
    GREAT ST. BERNARD PASS, Switzerland, Oct. 27 - The only dog right now at the 950-year-old hospice of St. Bernard is a very nice golden retriever named Justy. The issue of those other dogs - the famously huge and heroic ones, who toted brandy barrels in legend, who lived here for centuries and sniffed scores of stranded travelers out of the snow - is not one that the Rev. Frédéric Gaillard is keen to talk about. "Now there are helicopters," Father Gaillard, one of four remaining monks at the St. Bernard's hospice here, said with some irritation. "And we have...