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Wrote Correspondent Mead: "As you go from lunch party to cocktail party to late dinner, you realize that these people live more beautifully, possibly, than any people in the world. . . . You go to dine at Count Borromeo's and find that he has discovered an early 18th-Century gold and white vaulted ceiling, uniting five rooms, so he has torn down the walls to make one room-27 yards long-that he partitions off partially with screens into various dining-and sitting-rooms, leaving the superb ceiling to create a decorative unity between them...
...given the power of confirmation which usually is possessed only by bishops. During three years, despite a crippled leg and an ailment in his much abused chest. Fray Junipero revisited all the California missions, confirmed 5,309 Indians. In 1784 Junipero Serra died, was buried at San Carlos Borromeo mission near Carmel on the fog-swept Monterey peninsula...
Obispo v. Obispo Maximo, Sixty years ago Dennis Dougherty ("Dinny" to his parents, Patrick and Bridget, Irish immigrants) was a schoolboy of grimy Girardville, Pa. who spent his vacations as a breaker boy in the coal mines. At 14 he passed the entrance examinations for St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook near Philadelphia. Told he was too young to enter, he spent two years in a Jesuit College in Montreal, returned to St. Charles, was admitted to the same class he would have joined in the first place. In 1885 Dennis Dougherty went to Rome's North American College...
...their peace with God, put their lives in order. That example, however, has been systematically and generally followed only among Roman Catholics. In the 16th Century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Society of Jesus, laid down detailed rules for "retreats" in his Spiritual Exercises, and St. Charles (Cardinal) Borromeo established retreat houses in his archdiocese of Milan. Since the 17th Century annual retreats have been customary and obligatory for all Catholic priests. Since 1882, when a French Jesuit named Pere Henry pioneered among workingmen to revive the custom of attending them, retreats have steadily gained favor among pious laymen...
...professor at St. John's Seminary, Brighton, Mass. The Holy See and its Apostolic Delegate in the U. S., however, do things in their own way. Last week was announced the appointment to the Washington post of Monsignor Joseph M. Corrigan, 56, rector since 1925 of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary at Overbrook...