Word: franciscanism
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...Milan, Santa Maria delle Grazie (which houses Leonardo da Vinci's recently restored Last Supper) also has a fine cloister with Bramante frescoes, largely ignored and badly damaged by water seeping through walls and ceiling. ¶ In Florence's Santa Croce, Italy's greatest Franciscan church, rain falls through the battered roof of the Bardi chapel, forms pools on the cracking floor...
...long time ago. before people stopped noticing miracles and started saying that they do not happen, a newborn baby was left one summer's night at the gate of a little Franciscan cloister that sat on the top of a high hill in the land of Spain. "It's a baby!' gasped the friar who found the precious package. He conducted a discreet investigation: "It's a boy!" And he ran to show the others what a wonder had come into their quiet lives. Brother Thomas, the cook, a man as simple and round and solid...
...regard Communist rule as "an act of God and a demonstration of His love." Last week brought further evidence of just how "free" Christianity is in Red China. After keeping him prisoner for five years, the Communists released Henry Ambrose Pinger, Roman Catholic Bishop of Chow-tsun and a Franciscan missionary in China for 30 years. He was the last American Roman Catholic bishop to be released from prison by the Reds. In Hong Kong, Nebraska-born Bishop Pinger, 59, told reporters about his experiences...
...rump Catholic Church that the Reds tried to organize. So Lo went ahead arresting missionaries, priests and clergymen as spies, or harried them into leaving the country. Of China's 6,475 foreign missionaries, only eleven priests (eight in prison and three under house arrest) and 14 Franciscan Sisters now remain. Of China's 4,000,000 Christians, only a few thousand worship freely today, and in their churches the Chinese red flag hangs above pulpit or altar...
...peon, the conquerors like Cortez, the revolutionists Zapata and Padre Miguel Hidalgo. But Orozco alone of Mexico's Big Three took a hard second look at the world about him and had the courage to draw what he saw: the Marxist "liberator" in turn enslaving the revolutionaries, the Franciscan friar as the symbol of brotherly compassion. These views, plus his hatred of war and distrust of political panaceas, often brought his art into open conflict with the rhetoric of Rivera and the angry manifesto images of Siqueiros. But they expressed the age-old cry of the Mexican people...