Word: ferrere
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...Manhattan's handsome Church of St. Vincent Ferrer, many a Catholic went last week to venerate the church's latest acquisition. Exposed during a solemn novena was a gilded silver reliquary containing a finger joint of St. Vincent Ferrer-one of the largest major relics extant of a man who was one of the greatest evangelists of all time. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419), of knightly Spanish birth, belonged to the Order of Friars Preachers (Dominicans). For 50 years he lived austerely, declined all honors. With middle age came Vincent Ferrer's renown as a wonder worker...
...being fostered not only by priests who give Porres leaflets to Pullman porters but also by 50,000 members of the Blessed Martin Guild, founded by The Torch, Dominican monthly whose editor is Rev. Edward Hughes 0. P. In the Dominicans' swank Manhattan Church of St. Vincent Ferrer last month was unveiled a statue of Blessed Martin (see cut, p. 46), first of a Negro in any U. S. Catholic church. "Non Sum Papabilis." When the College of Cardinals gathered in 1903 to elect a Pope,the following conversation took place between a Frenchman and an Italian:* "Votre Eminence...
...went the cork, and Cuba's President Ramon Grau San Martin gratefully drained a glass of champagne last week with Spain's Ambassador Luciano Lopez Ferrer. The occasion was Spain's formal recognition of Cuba's latest government. Spain was the first European nation so to act, though Mexico, Uruguay, Peru and Panama had already done so. ¶Cuba's long-threatened general strike again failed to materialize. President Grau settled himself a little more solidly in the saddle by signing a smart decree. To persuade Cuba's wild-eyed, well-meaning students...
...territory. Some of the officers wanted to rally the enlisted men, of whom each felt he could count on perhaps a score, and march on the Palace. Most were willing to compromise if the revolutionary government would consent to appoint a President and Cabinet. The officers sent out Col. Ferrer to treat with...
...this show was no great success. Only 3,000 of Havana's critical crowd gathered in the square before the Palace to see the latest inauguration. Other thousands came up, took one look and went on. One of President Grau San Martin's first callers was Col. Ferrer with the word that the officers would support no President who had not received U. S. recognition. Barricaded in the National Hotel the officers issued a statement: "The public al ready has forgotten the patriotic work we did in getting rid of the Dictator Machado when the enlisted personnel...