Word: lisieux
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...confused with France's St. Teresa of Lisieux (1873-97) or Portugal's 13th Century St. Teresa, daughter of King Sancho...
...shattered Normandy town of Lisieux last week, kindly Father Louis Augros was hard at work in an ugly brick seminary, training the 150 new candidates for the Mission de France and Mission de Paris. "The purpose of the training," said Superior Augros, "is, first, to return to the original Christian message, second, to integrate Christian truth with the preoccupations and intellectual scheme of the modern world...
Madame Lulu & God. Back at Lisieux for a refresher course while waiting reassignment is shock-haired, dark-eyed Father Georges Baudry, 31, who has spent the last four years working in the Communist-ridden Normandy parish of Saint Andre. He is not at all discouraged by the fact that in one village of 100 inhabitants he was able to increase the number of regular churchgoers only from one to three. Much more important, he thinks, is that through him the greater part of the village has lost its hostility to the church and is increasingly dubious of Communist propaganda...
Statesman. Eugenio Pacelli as early as 1935 denounced the growing "superstition ot race and blood." Pius XI was at pains to send his closest collaborator on many missions, often by airplane-to Eucharistic Congresses in Buenos Aires in 1934 and Budapest in 1938, to Lisieux, France in 1935, to the U. S. on a transcontinental "vacation" tour in 1936.* Thanks to these farflung travels, the new Pope was known to immense numbers of people, Catholic and non-Catholic. The world saw in Pope Pius XII a Catholic linguist (he speaks nine tongues, most of them fluently); a Catholic diplomat...
...Holy Father was comatose, his pulse weakly fluttering. Dr. Filippo Rocchi became suddenly alarmed, aroused the Pope's Secret Chamberlains in a nearby room. Present in the modest chamber, in which the Pope could gaze upon a portrait of the longtime protectress of his health, St. Therese of Lisieux, gathered a hushed assemblage: lean, austere Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, Papal Secretary of State, Camillo Cardinal Caccia-Dominioni, the Pope's protege and master of ceremonies, Count Franco Ratti, the Pope's nephew, Governor Camillo Serafini of Vatican City. The Pope's regular doctor, Dr. Aminta Milani, himself...