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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...
...foundation of the church of St. Francis rising over his grave, has little hillside Assisi been thrilled as it was last week. The stiff coattails of the bearded, bustling proprietor of the Hotel Subasio flapped with excitement, mayor and corporation excitedly talked plans for two days. Even the Franciscan brothers in the monastery, the Poor Clares in their convent, read their offices with a certain worldly detachment. For Princess Giovanna, next-to-youngest daughter of King Vittorio Emanuele of Italy, was coming to Assisi to be married to little Tsar Boris of Bulgaria...
...Franciscan order.* In the refectory, brown-robed friars reminded each other last week that years ago-when Princess Maria, little sister of Princess Giovanna, was desperately ill, Giovanna had come to Assisi to make her novena, had sworn that if Maria recovered she, Giovanna, would be married at the tomb of St. Francis under the walls made glorious by Giotto di Bondone (1267-1337), greatest of "primitive" mural painters...
...years the Umo has attempted to murder Poland's Dictator, Marshal Josef Pilsudski; Poland's second President, Jan Wojciechowski; the Minister of Commerce and Industry Eugene Kwiatkowski; has succeeded in murdering a State official, one Sobinski. Last week the Umo added to its reputation by burning a Franciscan convent and 60 farms...