Word: missionizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...preacher of burning zeal, Fray Junipero moved his people to penitential awe with such mortifications as applying a torch to his bare chest and beating it with stones. With a party of 15 he visited the missions of Lower California, then struck north into new and unsaved territory. At San Diego in 1769 he established Upper California's first mission which was, like all the others, a civil as well as a spiritual outpost. A mission consisted of a church, a residence of the fathers, a presidio or military guard, shops and workrooms in which to instruct Indians...
Franciscan zeal waned; in 1835 there were but 150 Indian converts at Carmel. Uncared for, the San Carlos Mission fell prey to wind and rain, which destroyed its tiled roof, and to weeds which engulfed Fray Junipero's cell and his grave. Not until 1882 was restoration begun on the mission. Not until last week, which brought the 153rd anniversary of the good Franciscan's death, was the restoration of his simple cell completed. By then, the Franciscans now in charge of the Carmel Mission, and their superior, Bishop Philip George Scher of the Monterey-Fresno diocese...
...enough to set in motion Fray Junipero's cause for beatification, preparatory to which the Church, if it found he had been responsible for miracles, would give him the title "Venerable." Appointed Vice-Postulator, or working advocate of the cause, was Franciscan Father Augustine Hobrecht of Santa Barbara Mission. But Father Augustine may not live to see Fray Junipero's canonization, for sainthood may take from 25 to 100 years...
...November day in 1935 a babbling, excited band of pygmies pranced into the Catholic Mission at Buta, in the Belgian Congo, carrying with them a baby okapi, scarcely a dozen days old. They had captured him 90 miles away in the surrounding Ituri Forest, a jungle so dense that only a pygmy can penetrate it. Delightedly the Buta brothers caught up the little animal...
...unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper's and Scribner's, respectively, comparing the U. S. Episcopal clergy with that of pre-War Russia and accusing U. S. mission boards of "building battleships for Japan." David Colony also made his way to Harrisburg for a hearing on a Sunday cinema bill, cried: "I am willing to stand in my pulpit and compete with Mae West, and if the Word I preach isn't more attractive than the swaying...