Word: capuchins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Anthony's Monastery of the Capuchin Friars at Marathon, Wis. last week, a wise and white-haired monk named Rev. Theophilus Riesinger went about his daily orisons and meditations, indifferent to the fact that he was being widely publicized among U. S. Catholics as a potent and mystic exorcist of demons. Publicizers were the Religious Bulletin of the University of Notre Dame, and the Catholic Register of Denver, whose 300,000 subscribers last fortnight read the following story condensed from a pamphlet called Begone Satan...
With the convent room full of noise and confusion, nuns and the local priests were obliged at times to leave it to rest. But the bespectacled old German-born Capuchin never stopped exorcising. For protection Father Theophilus, by special permission, wore a pyx containing the Blessed Sacrament. "Horrible excrements, obviously preternatural in their volume and filth, were ejected by the possessed woman, as the devils' endeavored to hit the Blessed Sacrament (although they always missed It)." When the priest approached with a relic of the True Cross concealed under his cassock, there were howls: "I cannot bear that...
...island of Madeira under a heap of ancient wilted wreaths from European royalty. One thing the Dollfuss Heimvehr Government is most likely to do for the Habsburgs is to allow Karl's body to be brought back to take its place among his ancestors in the Capuchin Church in Vienna, and to repeal the law exiling all who do not renounce their royal rights. One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass meeting last week...
...sacred thirst pledge" of this Methodist campaign is, oddly, not Methodist but Roman Catholic, the invention of Father Theobald Mathew (1790-1856), an Irish Capuchin friar whose statue adorns the main thoroughfare of Dublin in the immediate vicinity of one of that city's most popular bars.* Father Mathew, after working for 24 years in Cork, founding schools, opening a cemetery and engaging in rescue work during the cholera epidemic of 1832, signed the pledge when he was 48 and crusaded all over Ireland on behalf of teetotalism. His pledge, as adopted by the Methodists, reads...