Word: foundress
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cause is successful elaborate ceremonies are held in St. Peter's in Rome. All this runs to money. The Roman Catholic faithful are giving sums which may eventually total as much as 1,000,000 lire ($70,000) to make a saint of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart,* on whose case hearings were in progress last week at Chicago. Youngest of 13 children, Frances Cabrini was born in Italy in 1850. She founded her sisterhood in 1880. Saved as a child from drowning, she had a lifetime horror of water...
...peace was urged by Professor Francis J. Onderdonk of the University of Michigan. More exciting was young Yoshiaki Fukuda, head of Japan's Konkokyo (Shinto) sect (not to be confused with the Tenrikyo sect, whose Patriarch Shozen Nakayama, also at the Parliament, talked about the sect's foundress, his great-grandmother-TIME, Aug. 28). Shintoist Fukuda flayed as "sentimental" any pacifism which ignores "hindrances"-such as Japan's need for territory. Shintoist Fukuda, like Publisher William Randolph Hearst (see p. 21) and members of last fortnight's Banff conference, admitted war between Japan...
...because commemorative stamps carry the picture of one Marie Bard, artist's model, instead of Clarissa Harlowe (Clara) Barton's, cantankerous Red Cross foundress...
Next candidates for North American sainthood are Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, foundress of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York, foundress of the Sisters of Charity...
Keen was the lamentation, sonorous the drumming which last August howled from the strange Church of the Innocent Blood in a swampy outskirt of New Orleans. Mother Catherine Seal, mulatto foundress of a faith-healing Afro-Catholic cult, was dead in far-away Lexington...