Word: franciscans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...France's 50,000 Catholic "regular" priests (in religious orders), 8,000 were mobilized last week. Leading in numbers were Jesuits, Christian Brothers and the peaceable Franciscans. Typical fighting fathers: Franciscan Aviation Captain Boigerolles; Pere Godefroy of the White Fathers, second lieutenant in the Senegalese sharpshooters; Jesuit Father Carre, in the tank corps...
...Custody still stands. Last week the 151st Franciscan Custos (custodian), arrived in Washington, D.C. for a visit. A merry, bespectacled, red-bearded Italian, Most Rev. Albert Gori, the Custos (also called "His Paternity") put up at the Franciscan monastery of Mt. St. Sepulchre. There he was visited by many a priest, including well-waisted Rector Joseph M. Corrigan of nearby Catholic University. Object of His Paternity's trip to the U.S.: to thank U.S. givers, to rally more givers to the Holy Land shrines. The Washington monastery, called the Commissariat and College of the Holy Land for the U.S.A...
...that he has a mistaken idea because we in San Francisco had a similar fiesta prior to the opening of the Golden Gate International Exposition. .. . There were more sore faces per San Franciscan than possibly in the whole U. S. and after the fiesta was over, barbers did a land-office business getting faces and hair back into shape again...
...Wisconsin, where he will become a Franciscan monk, went painfully popular Father Simon Borkowski. Since last September Father Simon has been "imprisoned" in his Vulcan, Mich. Roman Catholic rectory (TIME, Sept. 5) by picketing parishioners who objected to his bishop's transferring him to another diocese...
...ever shown in California. To select its gallery of contemporary paintings and sculpture, meditative Roland McKinney, onetime director of the Baltimore Museum, had traveled 30,000 miles and peered carefully at the handiwork of 350 U. S. artists. To assemble a central gallery of decorative arts, smart San Franciscan Dorothy Liebes whizzed through Europe last summer visiting ateliers from dawn to dusk, enlisted such distinguished U. S. and European designers as Richard Neutra, Miës van der Rohe. A glowing fulfillment of the fair's "Pacific" theme were seven rooms of treasured art and craftsmanship hand-picked...