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...bundle of bones kept in Olintepeque. One day last week in the main plaza of that village, the 1,500 inhabitants gathered apprehensively. The influx of foreign Catholic priests that started in 1954 (following repeal of a 19th century ban) was finally bringing Olintepeque its own parish priest. Luis Manresa Formosa, Bishop of nearby Quezaltenango and a no-nonsense defender of the faith, was coming with the departmental Governor to install James Flaherty of New York's Maryknoll order, as the fulltime village priest...
Ignatius gave his fine clothes to a beggar, placed his sword and dagger on the altar of the Virgin at Montserrat. and retired for eleven months to the caves of Manresa to train for God's service as he had once trained for the duke's. He disciplined his body with torture and fasting, then turned to his mind, bending it to his will according to a self-imposed manual of mental arms. Out of this arduous retreat came the famed Spiritual Exercises, the course of disciplined mysticism that all Jesuits must undergo in a concentrated form...
...Fordham University's president, the Rev. Robert I. Gannon S.J., will exchange his budget juggling, administrative conferences, luncheon dates, and after-dinner speeches for a more peaceful program of prayer, study, sermonizing and spiritual direction of laymen. He will become Superior of the Jesuit Retreat House at Manresa, Staten Island...
From the south one force drove up the narrow shore line to Sitjes and beyond. Barcelona was 15 miles away. From the northwest another column came down on Manresa. Barcelona was 30 miles away, but this force was headed toward the sea north of the Loyalist capital in an apparent effort to encircle the city, cut it off from France. The western attackers reached Martorell. Barcelona was 10 miles away...
...West, 1,200 laymen throughout the year retreat at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Sierra Madre near Los Angeles, while others attend El Retiro, San Inigo, a retreat conducted by Jesuits near San Francisco. A place favored by Manhattan businessmen and politicians is Mount Manresa on Staten Island. In Chicago such good Catholics as Judge John Patrick McGoorty, President Dennis Francis Kelly of The Fair (department store), President Frederick H. Massman of National Tea Company and Mayor James Joseph Kelly's brother Stephen spend "Sixty Golden Hours" in the Franciscan retreat nearby at Mayslake. Last week Catholics...