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...London's famed Sotheby's (pronounced Sutherbees) auction house. Prize catch of the lot was clearly Peter Paul Rubens' Adoration of the Magi. A 10 ft. 9¼ in. by 8 ft. panel painted by Rubens at the peak of his powers in 1634 for Louvain's Convent of the Dames Blanches, it is considered by dealers not only the best Rubens in Britain but the most important old master to be put on the block at Sotheby's in over 30 years...
...class at school every year from the age of nine through 15, won a gold medal and the title primus perpetuus, i.e., everlasting first. At 17, he entered the Society of Jesus, took his first vows two years later in 1909. He took a doctorate in civil law at Louvain University in 1919 and the same year was ordained a priest. Over the next quarter-century, and especially as head of the North Belgian Province (1938-46), Father Janssens developed a kind of subterranean reputation as a quiet, levelheaded administrator. No one was more surprised than the self-effacing Belgian...
...Louvain, Belgium...
...make up their first issue, Father Van Ackeren and his fellow editors at St. Mary's College in Kansas-all of them Jesuits-read articles in more than 100 Catholic and Protestant reviews, written in five languages. A sampler of their selections: Louvain's Professor Joseph Coppens discussing the knife-edge Roman Catholic distinction between literal and allegorical interpretations of the Bible; Father Clifford Howell, an English Jesuit, giving his suggestions on how laymen can better participate in the Mass; Historian Ernst W. Zeeden of the University of Freiburg reviewing current theological developments in Protestantism...
Sheen did brilliantly at Louvain; he was the first American to win the Cardinal Mercier prize, awarded once a decade for the best philosophical treatise. In 1925, Louvain granted him the degree (he has eleven others) of which he is proudest-Agrégé en Philosophic (a kind of Ph.D. plus...