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...March 25. Any pious woman may join or resign at will. Their habit is a rough grey-blue gown and a "cornette" or white-winged headdress such as 17th Century French peasants wore. (In her later years St. Louise wore a form of widow's weeds.) The "Loyola Unit" of the Sisters of Charity were the only U. S. nuns to go overseas during the War. U. S. Sisters have their own candidate for Sainthood: Venerable Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) who founded a U. S. branch in Maryland and whose cause is being promoted for beatification (TIME...
...Virgil had asked Gertrude Stein to write an opera for him. Among the saints there were two saints whom she had always liked better than any others. Saint Theresa of Avila and Ignatius Loyola, and she said she would write an opera about these two saints. She began this and worked very hard at it all spring and finally finished Four Saints and gave it to Virgil to put it to music. He did. And it is a completely interesting opera both as to words and music."-Gertrude Stein in The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (TIME, Sept.11...
...Holy Father's. The General, like the head of any religious order, is elected by a Jesuit general congregation which rarely convenes for any other purpose. He has large spiritual and admin- istrative authority, even to setting aside (but not altering) the Constitutions written by St. Ignatius Loyola and associates and adopted in 1558. The General lives in Rome, is advised by assistants from various parts of the World (at present only five). Should the General through age or infirmity become incapable of governing the Jesuits, the general congregation may meet and appoint a vicar...
Every Jesuit college in the world periodically gets a new president, personally chosen in Rome by the "Black Pope''-the Jesuit General. Last week, for the 16th time, Loyola University in Chicago changed presidents. Rev. Robert Michael Kelley, S.J. was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J. who has been eleven years on Loyola's staff...
...became president of Baltimore City College. First-born male descendants took his name, even when Jesuit Wilson's Catholic grand mother took her children into her church. Born in Chicago 51 years ago last week, Samuel Knox Wilson studied in the Mid west, taught in Jesuit institutions including Loyola, took a doctorate in history at Cambridge. At college he improved his health playing football but he distrusts the intercollegiate sport, will keep it out of Loyola as it has been for three years (TIME...