Word: lorenza
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Dates: during 1926-1926
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When the Mexican Government, that harsh organization, sent the foreign Roman Catholic priesthood packing from the country (TIME, Feb. 6, LATIN AMERICA), a very old nun from a convent in Mexico City took ship for Manhattan. She arrived last week-Lorenza Rivarez, Mother Superior of the Order of St. Theresa-the first of the expelled believers to tell what scenes of abomination have been enacted in nunneries and churches. Misfortune had made her shy; her rapid, sorrowful words clicked like beads, pattered like rain; a Chancine priest translated the Spanish into French; a reporter put the French into English...