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...Nono" was a strong-willed prelate whom many will have difficulty visualizing as a saint on the same ecclesiastical calendar with Francis of Assisi or Paul of Tarsus. Elected to the chair of St. Peter in 1846. Pius IX started out as one of the most liberal-minded Popes in centuries. He granted amnesty to political prisoners jailed during the reign of his predecessor, tried to clean up the corrupt, sluggish government of the Papal States. To the surprise of Europe's statesmen, he even seemed sympathetic to the ideals of Italian nationalism, and for a while worked actively...
...nearly a week, the slim, greying American walked through the winding streets of Assisi, pausing now and then before the office of Father Giovanni Rossi, founder of an institute for lay Catholics called Pro-Civitate-Christiana. Finally, he burst in on the priest. "Of course," he blurted out. "I must be converted." Two weeks later, Artist William Congdon was baptized as a Roman Catholic, and -as he puts it-"fell into the church as a child abandons itself to the mother...
...Arch Cliché." Even painting failed. After a visit to Cambodia in 1959, Congdon returned home to Venice convinced that he had exhausted his creative reserve. In this searching mood, he went to Assisi and became a Catholic...
Written on commission from the San Francisco Symphony, which is celebrating its 50th season. Composer Harris' new work is titled San Francisco Symphony. But it is actually intended as a musical evocation of the life of St. Francis of Assisi. Harris began work, he says, when he was flying across the country at 33,000 ft.-hence the music's "quality of aspiration." Often rising at 3 a.m. and working through until midnight, Harris finished his 22-minute symphony in one month. As played last week, it had all the ardor, the sinewy strength, the luminosity and clarity...
Someone from Assisi confronts St. Francis with a woman he had known carnally in his prevocational days. She is now as whirling mad as he is gently pious. The whole episode has the air of bogus revelation, as if it had been excerpted from a TV show called "Francis-This is Your Life...