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...Divisions aside, the Franciscans also produced more canonized saints than any other-94 canonized, 202 beatified. Among Franciscan saints: Anthony of Padua (patron of motorists), St. Bernardino of Siena (advertisers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Assisi Today | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall, and a concert hall into a temple." Eventually, Casals attracted the attention of Spain's Queen Mother, Maria Cristina. who invited him to play and compose at the court. Britain's Queen Victoria soon summoned him to London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: EI Maestro | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

...scene is laid in Ireland and in old times," and the peasants all around are starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Countess Cathleen | 4/18/1957 | See Source »

...Comic Jackie Gleason had been tossed out on his leer. With him went his blonde companion of the evening. Complained the Stork's Boss Sherman Billingsley: "He was drunk and rowdy, and the girl was even drunker. We don't welcome that caliber of person as a patron." Wailed Gleason: "I thought it was a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 18, 1957 | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

...Patron and patriarch of this period was a Saxon count, Nicholas von Zinzendorf, on whose estate a group of Moravian refugees settled in 1722. They established a community called Herrnhut-the place God will guard-and here developed some of the customs that are peculiar to the Moravians today, such as reviving the early Christian agape, or love feast, which, unlike Communion, is a real meal shared in mutual devotion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Moravian Anniversary | 3/18/1957 | See Source »

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