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Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
Husky, lusty, greying Jesuit Lord is one of the dozen ablest, best-known Catholic priests in the U. S. A onetime English professor at Jesuit St. Louis University, he became in 1925 U. S. organizer of the Sodality of Our Lady, a band of 1,000,000 young Catholics, and editor of a Catholic paper called The Queen's Work, whose circulation he ran from 12,000 up to 83,000. Father Lord is also the nation's No. 1 Catholic pamphleteer, author of 5? tracts on subjects like Shall I Be a Nun?, My Friend the Pastor...
Storm-Tossed, Father Lord's 22nd play, reflects the vigorous Jesuit's latest attempt to dramatize the sociological ideals of papal encyclicals. Moral of Storm-Tossed is that the solution of economic troubles lies in "the revolution of which Jesus Christ is the leader ... so Red . . . that it has never been tried yet." The play was given five performances in St. Louis last fortnight, cleared $1,300. Its 85 actors took busses to Gillespie last week at the behest of a miners' priest named Rev. John Goff, who had been preaching anti-Communist sermons in restive Macoupin...
...packs have historical significance. In one very valuable set issued in 1680 the identification characters at the top are all but crowded out by wood cut illustrations of the suppression of the "horrid.. popish plot" of 1679. One of the pictures shows the hanging of five Jesuit priests and another a public book burning. Another set, made at Brianville in 1667, carries the hand made coat of arms of a noble French family...
...Rome Christian-born Agnes swore herself to virginity, miraculously preserved her maidenhood despite an attempted outrage, was martyred by decapitation at the age of 12. Youngest child saint of all. little St. Hugh of Lincoln was crucified, supposedly by Jews, in 1255 at the age of 9. In Jesuit America last week a Benedictine named Bonaventure Schwinn produced a mo,dern "Who's Who of Child Candidates for Beatification...