Word: franciscan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...despatch stated that the Pope was "intensely angry." Moscow Bolsheviki had imprisoned 15 novices of the Women's Franciscan Order, ten Catholic priests. No charge, it was stated, had been filed against the women; the priests were charged with disseminating anti-Soviet propaganda; all were doing relief work. The Pope contemplated "strong action...
...Caracas. He recently opened a Jesuit College, the first to be permitted since Bolivar revolted. Working in accord with Government, he is rapidly re?stablishing the ancient missions. Last month it was determined that the Government should furnish most of the requisite cash, and the Church would furnish Franciscan friars to repenetrate the wilderness. The Franciscans will teach agriculture as well as religion in their attempt to civilize the Indians neglected by the State...
Prince Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freudenberg was formerly a Captain in the Hanover Uhlans. General von Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan monks, having taken the vow in Munich. The distinguishing characteristic of the Franciscan order is: Imitation of the public life of Christ, especially His poverty and simplicity- "A poor and scanty use of earthly goods." Their dress is brown robe with white girdle...
Farly in the 12th Century St. Bernard roundly rebuked the Church of Lyons for attempting to celebrate the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin. St. Thomas Aquinas rejected the doctrine, as did also St. Bonaventura. However, John Duns Scotus, a celebrated Franciscan who died in 1308, argued in favor of the Immaculate Conception, in 1387 the University of Paris adopted it, in 1483 Pope Sixtus IV condemned those who denied it, and in 1854 Pope Pius IX promulgated it as dogma...
Died. Rev. Ansel M. Mueller, 85, "oldest priest in the Franciscan order in the U. S.," at Joliet...