Word: franciscans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Already about its holy business in Ethiopia last week was a "Catholic Expeditionary Force," a mission headed by Archbishop Giovanni Maria Emilio Castellani, 49, lately of Rhodes. Under this able Franciscan, Vatican-trained native missionaries, white priests and what the Protestants called "swarms of nuns" were pitching in to "reclaim" 5,000,000 Copts to the Catholic faith, with which the Ethiopian Coptic Church was allied in early times and again for a few years in the 17th Century. From Vatican City came report that Italy and the Church's C. E. F. will follow the British empire-building...
...combating of every form of indecency and the preservation and spread of the virtues of modesty and purity," a League of Modesty was founded two years ago by Roman Catholics in Chicago. Last week this League, headed by a Franciscan named Rev. Celestine Strub, presented a Modest Woman's Creed based upon the preachings of Francesco Cardinal Marchetti-Selvaggiani, Vicar General of Pope Pius XI. Recommended to all good Catholic women, it urges...
Thus a major U. S. playground was belatedly recognized as a major province of the Church. Southern California is historically dear to Rome. In 1769, Franciscan Father Junipero Serra with 75 Spanish soldiers and a gang of Mexican muleteers journeyed 900 mi. overland from Lower California to the Pacific, which they reached at the sandspit of San Diego. On Aug. 2, they forded a shallow river among sunburnt hills, discovered a village of unpromising heathens, named it for the feast day of Our Lady of the Angels and pushed on. Few years later the glory of God was attested...
...Last week at Forest Hills it produced not only a new face but a new U. S. champion and a personage whom many experts considered quite likely to develop into the most exciting player of her sex since Suzanne Lenglen. She was blonde Alice Marble, 23-year-old San Franciscan who by beating Helen Jacobs 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 in the final of the U. S. Women's Singles Championship accomplished the major tennis upset of the year...
...politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby at Mayslake. Last week Catholics flocked to the nation's two most famed retreats, at South Bend, Ind. and Malvern...