Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What the members of this Order wear is a modified Dominican habit. This consists of a tunic, fastened with a black girdle (having three knots at the ends, signifying the three-fold vows of poverty, chastity and obedience), a scapulary, and over all a mantle and hood. The indoor habit (with the exception of the girdle) is white. When a monk leaves the monastery he wears the outdoor habit, which is the same, save that its color is black. In cool weather he wears also a black cloak, and a black "fried-egg" hat, more common amongst English clergymen than...
...portly, shrewd, magisterial Martin Stanislaus Gillet, 55, 78th Master General of the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans, in England Black Friars) entered Spain 100 years ago or any European country 200 years ago, as he entered the U. S. last week, the populace would have scurried from accusations of heresy. For usually Dominicans operated the Inquisition, with the occasional aid of Franciscans. But the Inquisition no longer exists. The Black Friars confine themselves to the main purposes of their founder, St. Dominic of Guzman (1170-1221)-to preach, teach and missionize. Master General Gillet's visit...
...permits the special reading of such books. It dispenses priests from fasting before mass. It judges, as supreme court, all cases of mixed marriages. It judges heresy and all offenses leading to a suspicion of heresy. All members take an oath of secrecy, "the secret of the Holy Office." Dominican Gillet helps conduct its unreportable trials. Seventy-five religious orders for men exist in the U. S. Most familiar to the general public are the Jesuits because of their universities and their earthquake reports.- But the Franciscans (in England Grey Friars) and Benedictines (Black Monks) are also numerous and active...
Four nations landed sailors and marines in Santo Domingo last week to help hollow-eyed President Rafael Trujillo scavenge his hurricane smitten city. Seventy-five Royal Marines from the British Cruiser Danae helped Dominican soldiers clear the streets, police the city. Sailors from the U. S. S. Grebe and a Cuban gunboat landed food, built a temporary wooden aqueduct to bring pure water into town. A score of Dutch sailors from Curaçoa threw a pontoon bridge across the Ozama River...
...week, was the fact that Argentina's is the third and biggest South American revolution since early summer. Bolivia popped first (TIME, July 7), then Peru (TIME, Sept. 1 et seq.), while earlier in the year threatened revolutions forced a peaceful but sudden change of presidents in the Dominican Republic (TIME, March 10) and later Haiti (TIME, March...