Word: capuchin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, the church considered a case quite the opposite of the Heroldsbach visions. Since 1918, a quiet Capuchin friar, Padre Pio, has exhibited the stigmata, i.e., bleeding from the side, hands and feet in the same spots where Christ was wounded on the Cross (TIME, Dec. 19, 1949). Doctors have examined him and found the open wounds beyond medical explanation. Throngs of pilgrims come every year to make their confessions to Padre Pio and to receive his blessing. A devout and humble man, living quietly in a monastery in southern Italy, he has helped thousands on their spiritual journey...
This avocation had its hazards. Once, while the naturalist was still a medical student, a pet capuchin monkey named Gloria became bored and romped through his study. She dragged a bronze lamp across the room and heaved it into an aquarium. Then she unlocked a bookcase, removed Volumes 2 and 4 of Strumpel's textbooks of medicine, tore them to shreds and stuffed them in the fish tank. Lorenz returned to find fuses blown, empty book covers on the floor, and his sea anemones tangled in torn paper...
Renzo's marriage is forestalled by a dastardly nobleman who, all of a licker for Lucia, intimidates the village priest and tries to kidnap the proud young beauty. A friendly Capuchin spirits her through all his snares to a distant convent. Meanwhile, heartbroken Renzo, breathing smoke and vengeance, flees to Milan. No sooner is he there than he is caught up in a bread riot and turned in to the police by an informer. Lucia, poor thing, falls into the power of an evil nun, who hands the girl over to the nun's own lover...
...tried to rape her, she resisted him, even though he stabbed her to death. As she lay dying, Maria forgave Serenelli and promised to pray for him in heaven. Serenelli served 27 penitent years in prison for his crime and is now a handyman and pig-tender at a Capuchin monastery. There last week he spent the day of Maria's canonization "in prayer more intense than ever...
...Americans opened an orphanage for boys, preached and passed out U.S. food packages. The Frascatians were unenthusiastic. The orphanage had room for 50 boys, but only 22 came. Last summer, Frascati Capuchin monks organized lectures against Protestantism. Then one day last September two jeeploads of Church of Christers, at Castel Gandolfo for a biweekly Bible class, were threatened by a crowd of Italians who, they said, advanced shouting: "We want the Protestants' bones...