Word: franciscan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...contributions to last week's Progressive show, crop-headed Ben Bufano presented a 10-ft. fresco of another cowled Franciscan, screaming. It had no official title but to friends he explained that it was "Anathema Against San Francisco...
...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...
Every San Franciscan knows the California Palace of the Legion of Honor, an imposing colonnade in Lincoln Park. In it was exposed last week an exhibition of much local importance, the first California showing of a native though wandering son, Sculptor Isamu Noguchi...
There are in the U. S. some 250,000 Negro Catholics, of whom about 100,000 are represented by the Federation. There are three communities of Negro sisters: the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the Sisters of the Holy Family and the Franciscan Handmaids of Mary; many all-Negro parishes and parochial schools...
...Franciscan Fathers at Athlone, Ireland, last week asked U. S. charitarians to gamble on a gamble. The Franciscans have 200 betting tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes, a horse race which occurs next March. First prize of this race will amount perhaps to $2,000,000; total prizes $5,000,000. The monks are offering their 200 tickets as prizes in their own lottery, at 25? the chance. Their inducement...