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...irked him. Abetted by his wife and by No. i U. S. Yugoslav Louis Adamic (The Native's Return)* he came to the U. S. in 1934, gave exhibitions in Pittsburgh and Manhattan (TIME, Dec. 3, 1934). Last November he came again for good. Last spring when able Franciscan Father Zagar, having paid off more than half of his $98,000 mortgage, decided to beautify his yellow brick Romanesque church for God's greater pleasure and that of his congregation, he got in touch with Artist Vanka through Author Adamic ("Adamich" to Yugoslavs). In two weeks Vanka looked...
...droning prayers. Over the domed altar he painted a 36-ft. Madonna & Child in rich reds and blues, violet and silver, on one side wall a scene of Croatian peasants kneeling at the Angelus, on the other Croatian miners in the U. S. standing with heads bowed while a Franciscan priest, posed by St. Nicholas' pastor, kneels to invoke God's blessing on their church. For the side altars Vanka painted a Crucifixion and Pieta in cold blues and black, with green lightning. His model for the figure of Christ was a strapping Negro mill worker...
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...