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Last week Nazi workmen removed the remains of L'Aiglon from the dingy cellar of Vienna's Capuchin Church, placed the plain lead casket aboard a Paris-bound express. Adolf Hitler and Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop left Berlin for a secret destination. Pierre Laval, Vice Premier of France, left Paris for Vichy. He arrived there late one afternoon...
After a beautiful woman, Mexicans most love a martyr. Next best is a hero. For a dozen years comely, dark-eyed Conception Aceveda de la Llata, Madre Conchita (a Capuchin nun), has been all three. She became a sort of Mexican Tom Mooney...
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...
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...