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...Roman Catholic Church has lately noticed in rural Europe an increase of morbid, ultra-mystical worshippers and of strange fanatical figures deemed holy by the ignorant. Fairly well-known by Catholics throughout the world are the German peasant Therese Neumann and the Italian Franciscan Padre Pio, both of whom are reputed to have stigmata on their bodies. In Belgium and in Northern Spain are nuns who "sweat blood" during their devotions. Last week the Church moved to quiet the activities of all such persons. The Holy Office in Rome ordered the Belgian and Spanish women to be treated as medical...
...first railway worker in history to be canonized as a saint was the subject of preliminary ceremonies towards beatification at Vatican City last week. Paolo Pio Perazzo, who died in 1910, was poisoned by the bite of a mad dog while attempting to aid a child whom the dog had attacked. He had led a life of piety and devotion, throwing all his energies into the task of assisting railwaymen to improve the con- ditions under which they lived and worked. In return the Italian Railwaymen's Association is now contributing funds for the expense of Perazzo...
Birthday. H. R. H. Alfonso Pio Christino Eduardo Francesco Guillermo Carlo Enrique Eugenio Fernando Antonio Venancio, Prince of Asturias, eldest son of King Alfonso XIII of Spain. Age: 23. Date: May 10. Celebration: festivities in Madrid, signing of the Prince's autograph album by many a personage, announcement of decided improvement in H. R. H.'s health. (He has haemophilia? TIME...
Finally Newman's day came. Pio Nono (Pius IX) died; his successor raised Newman, at 80, to the Cardinalate. Ten years later (1890) Death came for him, who had lived to see his wheel of fortune come full circle. A gentleman and a scholar, he had his reward...
...Charles Augustus Stone and Edwin Sibley Webster entered Massachusetts Institute of Technology. They be came such close friends that even in their college days they were a team called "Stone & Webster." At that time electricity was passing through much the same pio neer period now observable in aviation. Bell had just invented the telephone. The first railway electrification was just completed. So Students Stone & Webster majored in electrical engineering, took degrees in 1888. Then came one year of separation which Mr. Stone spent with Thompson-Houston Co. (forerunner of General Electric) while Mr. Webster entered a bank...