Word: jesuitic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Segura pastoral letter set off a hot rocket in Madrid. Ever since the departure of King Alfonso, Madrid has been quiet?a little too quiet to suit observers who recalled the doldrums that preceded the French and Russian revolutions. Last week shouting mobs bore down on the Jesuit Industrial School, burned it to the ground, swept on to a Carmelite Convent, newly erected with funds collected in South America, and burned that too. In short order four more schools and convents were burned. Nuns and priests fled through back doors. Martial law was declared...
...eight Roman Catholic saints (TIME, April 7; July 7, 1930), excavators had discovered two complete skeletons and the skull of a third. Archeologist Parker was asked to determine their identity. They might be the remains of three of the eight saints?Isaac Jogues, Rene Goupil and John Lalande, Jesuit missionaries?who were slain near Auriesville by Iroquois Indians in the middle of the 17th Century...
...shrine already contains bones of John de Brebeuf, Gabriel Lalemant and Charles Gamier, Jesuit colleagues in the task of converting the Hurons, whom the Iroquois had vowed to exterminate. The cruelties and hardships to which they submitted were rewarded by canonization last June, the two requisite miracles for that purpose having been duly accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were...
...morning last week seismographs all over the U. S. trembled under their little glass cases. At Fordham University, Jesuit Father Joseph Lynch looked at the squiggles on his instrument's record sheet. He could see that heavy temblors were shaking the earth's crust about 2,150 miles away, but seismologists are used to such things. They happen somewhere every few days. Father Lynch said...
Holy Cross College (Jesuit...