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Caesar Borgia, Casanova, Talleyrand, Byron, and Thomas a Kempis, St. Francis of Assisi,--these are the sinners and saints whose characters are examined here as a study in contrasts. All of them acted according to Mr. Bradford from distinct motives, so that the casual reader is free to choose his own favorite form of sanctity or sinfulness for study. But whether he turns to St. Francis or Casanova, he will find the same gently ironic insistence on the underlying egotism which prompted them...
Tentatively included for the first time in the Methodist Hymnal, which will draw upon all faiths in its selections, are Poet John Greenleaf Whittier's "All Things Are Thine," and the hymn of St. Francis of Assisi which begins...
Republic of '73. Ancient Maria Isabel is one of the few living Spaniards who remembers vividly Spain's first Republic. In 1873 indomitable Maria Isabel (her father bore the surprising name, for a Bourbon consort, of Francis of Assisi) was a young woman of 22, already two years a widow. In 1868, the year of her marriage, her mother Queen Isabella was driven from the throne by an army mutiny. Liberals then proudly announced that the "spurious race of Bourbon" had disappeared forever...
Beatification is now the first step toward canonization, but at one time there was no marked difference between the two processes. Sts. Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua were canonized within a year or two of their deaths. It was Pope Urban VIII who settled (by decrees of 1625 and 1634) the modern practice of differentiation. The process is threefold: the reputation for sanctity must be established, the heroic quality of the virtues must be shown, the working of miracles must be proven. After beatification, in order to qualify for canonization, miracles must be performed. The procedure, therefore...
...recent "scandalous" remarriage of Bulgarian (Eastern) Orthodox Tsar Boris of Bulgaria and Roman Catholic Princess Giovanna of Italy. They contracted, in Italy, to rear all their children as Catholics, despite Bulgarian law which requires that the King be Orthodox, and went through a Catholic marriage ceremony at Assisi, Italy. It poured that day. In thunder, lightning and rain they left Italy for Sofia. Storms lashed their ship all the way. At Sofia they went through another marriage ceremony according to Orthodox rite-with great pomp and publicity (TIME, Nov. 10 et ante...