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...enroll at Maryknoll when it was founded 40 years ago. Ordained a priest in 1917, he was one of the first four missioners Maryknoll sent to China the following year. He founded the Maryknoll Seminary for Chinese Boys and played a key part in organizing the first overseas convent for Maryknoll sisters. His diocese would have been the first Maryknoll territory to be turned over to the native clergy. When his death was revealed last week, it followed the pattern of his life; he was Maryknoll's first martyr to the Chinese Reds...
...life's most amusing little ironies. He had always been a kindly misogynist, and was genuinely distressed by the close presence of females. However, the manor house where he had retired to translate the Bible was, as a wartime emergency, inundated with teen-age students from a London convent, and Ronnie was forced to spend most of his war listening to the confessions of hundreds of female adolescents. Being a great and humble priest, he undoubtedly bore this cross eagerly and brilliantly...
...Anti-Catholic literature of the mid-19th century had no greater scandal-success than Maria Monk's Awful Disclosures of the Hotel Dieu Nunnery of Montreal, a massive volume of bogus reminiscences. Maria's mother later testified that her daughter had never been in any convent, but, because of a childhood brain injury, had been confined in a Montreal asylum...
...significant shot keynoted the early stages of the rioting: the rifle shot that a fortnight ago killed Bridget Ann Timbers, an American nun, outside the convent in Ismailia where she had been stationed. The nun's death, for which each side blamed the other, was followed by bloody rioting in Ismailia, and a ruthless house-to-house search by the British for guerrillas and hidden weapons...
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...