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...Saintly Mystic. Mother Cabrini had her Mary as well as her Martha side. From childhood she had the mystic's hunger for communion with God that gave everything she did the quality of prayer. Legends about her grew up in her lifetime: that she was saved from drowning as a child by an unknown hand; that a locked church door opened to her touch. It is said that a sister who shared her room once woke to find it flooded with a strange light. But the most revealing evidences of her inner life were the intimate notes she kept...
Admiral Ernest J. King, wartime commander of the Pacific Fleet, was accepted into the Al Koran lodge of the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine in Cleveland...
Philip Neri, whose delight it was "to play the fool for the love of God," managed to be both saint and humorist-to what degree is made plain in Theodore Maynard's new biography, Mystic in Motley (Bruce Publishing Co., $2.50). Biographer Maynard contributes nothing essentially new, is content in his popularization merely to introduce to modern Americans cue of the most unexpected personalities in Catholic hagiology...
Philip's saintliness lay in his utter simplicity (he consistently refused papal offers of a cardinalate), his overwhelming love which inspired many of Rome's bright young men to enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to say mass without being transfixed by ecstasy). His humor lay in the bizarre penances he exacted at confession and the outlandish antics with which he humbled his own pride...
Died. Count Hermann Keyserling, 65, German philosopher-critic (The Travel Diary of a Philosopher), founder of the Darmstadt "School of Wisdom"; in Innsbruck, Austria. The Nazis hated the bearded mystic for his anti-nationalism, in 1942 declared him "unworthy to represent the German spirit"; U.S. lecture audiences of the '20s loved him despite his tart depictions of the U.S. as a humorless, soulless, overly intellectual matriarchate...