Word: capuchins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What counsel has the hooded moon Put in thy heart, my shyly sweet, Of love in ancient plenilune, Glory and stars beneath his feet- A sage that is but kith and kin With the comedian Capuchin...
...harbor of Brittany's St. Malo last week a trim, white two-masted ketch named St. Yves rocked at her moorings. In a hall in Paris a hulking, brown-eyed, brown-bearded Capuchin monk thundered sailor talk at an audience of 500. This week Father Yvon ("Little Yves") was to board the St. Yves, embark on his fourth voyage as chaplain of France's Grand Banks fishing fleet...
Father Yvon's career as a man of God goes no further back than the War, in which he, a simple Breton from Douarnenez, began fighting as a private, finished as an infantry lieutenant scarred by eleven wounds. After the armistice he entered the Capuchin novitiate, preached to Communist fishermen on the quays of St. Malo, soon became superior of a monastery near Dinard. This tranquil office the robust, jolly Capuchin renounced for the immensely practical missionary work carried on in the French fishing fleets since 1895 by the Société des Oeuvres de Mer. Father Yvon...
...Pierre-Miquelon and Godthaab in Greenland, Father Yvon will bring more mail and necessary supplies. Officially the St. Yves is a hospital ketch, equipped for surgical operations. It also contains an altar, but many a day Father Yvon packs up his holy vessels, pulls on rubber boots beneath his Capuchin robe, sets out over rough seas in a dory to different fishing boats. Passing out cigarets to seamen, fishermen, cabin boys, he changes into his priestly vestments, celebrates mass on an altar improvised from planks reeking with gutted fish...
...sort of satanic interest which always clings to the "roses and raptures of vice." Of all its episodes, the one involving Jane Clairmont and Byron, with the Countess Guiceioli bobbing up and down and Allegra abandoned to the Carbonari and the managerie and the Hoppners and the Capuchin Convent in Bagnacavallo is the least edifying...