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Into the Black. The Franciscans' Minister-General, Father Augustine Sépinski, gave an eight-hour progress report (in Latin) on the order's advance during the six years since he was elected: 132 new friaries, schools and churches built, 144 new parishes opened, 18 Franciscans appointed bishop and four archbishop. Some 4,000 Franciscans are working in 132 missions; 2,635 novices have entered the order. The Franciscans' Second Order, a cloistered group of women known as the Poor Clares, numbers 6,000. The Franciscan Third Order Secular is for laymen; the 3,500,000 members...
...Ever. During their two weeks in Assisi. the delegates sang the songs of their order's medieval days, laughed at Latin digs aimed at other orders, mourned the news from China, where 700 Franciscan missionaries have been reduced to one. Then they re-elected Minister-General Sépinski for a twelve-year term...
Stout, smiling Father Sépinski, 56, who grew up in the smoky French mining town of Audun-le-tiche on the Luxembourg border, holds doctorates in theology and canon law, seems constantly to be ricocheting from one Franciscan province to another (he has visited England, Ireland, France, Belgium, Holland, the Holy Land and the U.S.). At his Roman offices in the Franciscan Curia General, near St. Peter's, he rises at 5 a.m. for Mass, works most nights until midnight. Said Father Sépinski of his reelection: "I think the next twelve years will kill...
Birthdays, Mrs. Rebecca N. Hill, reputedly the oldest member of the D.A.R., 104; Nicholas Murray Butler, 70; David Pinski, Jewish playwright, 60; Henry William Frederick Albert, Duke of Gloucester, 32; S. S. Europa...
Three one-act plays, Pinski's "Cripples," Sutro's "A Marriage has been arranged," and Brody's "Rannzel," will be given by the Harvard and Radcliffe Menorah Societies tonight at 8 o'clock in the Agassiz Theatre. A reception in the living room of Agassiz House will follow the plays...