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Flaming Silhouettes. Neighbors awakened by screams and the tinkling crash of breaking windows, ran out to stare into a nightmare. St. Anthony's a plain, white-trimmed brick building, had stood in Effingham for 73 years; it was the only hospital in the county and its white-garbed Franciscan nuns had tended generations of the aged and the injured, the newborn and the dying. Now flame flickered and glared from behind almost every window and silhouetted frantic figures-nuns, nurses, patients in hospital gowns...
...spectators' platforms, the slogans, the music, the buses, boats and trains that carried out-of-towners to the city. It even organized the housewives to pack box lunches and send their husbands to the meeting. It was typical of Catholic Action's zealous exuberance that brown-robed Franciscan monks climbed on lamp posts and snapped pictures of the rally. Catholic Action speakers frequently engage Communist leaders in public debates. One of the most tireless debaters is a Dominican, Father Felix Morlion, who challenged Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti to a debate over Cardinal Mindszenty's trial. Togliatti sent...
...Ludovico renounced his claim to the Naples throne in order to honor a sickbed vow that, if he recovered, he would become a Franciscan. He was made Bishop of Toulouse the same year, died the next...
...descendants returned to the home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under the Franco regime, which requires police permits for gatherings of more than ten, Spain's 8,000 Jews had no place for public worship...
...Reader Madeira be more chary with his awards for valor. The Phoenix papers front-paged the story of Franciscan McLoughlin, A.P. and U.P. carried it on the wires...