Word: franciscan
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Inserted between Marie du Port and a newsreel is an extremely amusing French burlesque on American "coming attraction" trailers. Entitled The Loves of Franciscan it employs old silent films, trick photography, and punned names for credits. One woman told the the Beacon Hill's manager that she liked the short so much that she didn't want to miss the motion picture, when it arrived...
...examples of the driving force of faith, he mentioned the new life begun by St. Augustine after leaving Africa for Italy and Jesus' farewell to Mary. He also cited St. Francis' decision, while in an Italian church, to found his organization of Franciscan Friars, an order which was to extend to the coast of California 200 years later...
Forbidden Texts. François Rabelais was born in Touraine around 1495, the son of a country lawyer. He was placed, in early youth, as a novice in a Franciscan monastery, and later he was ordained a priest. A crack student, François soon got his hands on some forbidden Greek texts. Enraged, the good brothers snatched his books away. Outraged, François pulled strings and had himself transferred to the cultured Benedictines, who encouraged the study of Greek...
While sweating out the weary months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly...
Santa Clara was originally founded as a Franciscan mission, and Father Junipero Serra, California's great mission priest, dedicated its church himself in 1784. But in 1851, with California booming with gold rush, the mission was transferred to the Jesuits for a college...