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Eusebio Kino was born in the village of Segno, in the Tyrolese Alps, probably on Aug. 10, 1645. Educated in the Jesuit College at Trent, he became a member of the Order in 1665, studied at Ingolstadt, became a mathematician and cartographer, planned to become a missionary to China. Traveling by way of Genoa to Spain, Kino was ordered to Mexico, shipwrecked, studied the great comet of 1680, began a long correspondence with the devout Duchess of Aveiro y Arcos before he landed at Vera Cruz on Sept. 25, 1681. He died 30 years later in northwestern Mexico after having...
When the black-robed, Jesuit community of New York's Fordham University sat down to lunch in the refectory one noon last week, Aloysius Joseph Hogan was at the head of the table as well as the college, with Robert Ignatius Gannon on his right. When the community rose, Father Gannon was at the table's head. with Father Hogan on his right. During the meal a young Jesuit scholastic had brought Father Hogan an order from Rome sending him on to be dean of Georgetown University's graduate school, upping Father Gannon to Fordham...
Although most Jesuits, after 13 years of secluded study, have left home and family well behind, many a New Yorker recognized Fordham's new head as a native. Son of the late President Frank Stanislaus Gannon of Norfolk Southern R. R., slim, curly-headed Father Gannon has been a Jesuit for 23 of his 43 years. No stranger to Fordham, he taught there as a scholastic, directed student dramatics, organized a play shop. After his ordination he studied educational methods at the Sorbonne, Oxford, Cambridge, Perugia, Louvain. In 1930 the Jesuit Father General sent him to reopen St. Peter...
Died. Oliver Hazard Perry La Farge, 67, retired Manhattan banker, landscape artist, son of Painter John La Farge, brother of Architect Christopher Grant La Farge, Artist Bancel La Farge, Co-Editor John La Farge, S. J. of Jesuit America; in Manhattan...
Long reported the results of an interview of his with Father Phelan, secretary of the diocese, who declared that Father Corrigan's stand was purely personal. Father Ahearn, speaking for the Jesuit order said that the official position of that body was still hostile to the oath...