Word: santar
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Most Rev. James Conleth Ryan, 48, a balding, six-foot-two, ebullient, Chicago-born Franciscan, the fishermen of Santarém are the elite among the 150,000 people in his France-sized diocese. "This is one of the most backward areas in the world," says "River Bishop" Ryan. "I am trying to show the Amazon peoples that God, at least, has not forgotten them." In the process, Dom Tiago, as most of his flock calls him, has contracted malaria six times and learned to relish monkey meat: "It tastes like chicken, if you shut your eyes...
...founded by the Ford Motor Co. and taken over in 1945 by the Brazilian government. He mediated between the workers and the plantation management, shared his medical supplies with the hospital and his canned beans with the hungry. He was then instructed to establish a new parish, centered on Santarém, which with 30,000 square miles is still Rome's largest...
...Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed...
...Passport. Education is the bishop's prime concern, and he is constantly raising money to build new schools and supply existing ones. Every Wednesday evening in Santarém a group of teen-aged boys "who would be in police wagons in any other town" visit him. "We discuss everything from sex to satellites and they love it," says Ryan. "Besides a keen interest in Scripture they ask me such questions as 'Why do nuns cover their ears?' and 'What kind of medicine do priests take so they won't have to have a woman...
...Tiago's pet project at the moment is a seminary at Santarém to teach high school and junior college subjects. A 56-room building is going up: "I have 51 men working on it-as long as I stand there watching them." Ryan gets money for his projects on hat-passing trips to the U.S., where he inevitably confronts "a little old lady who asks, 'Do the natives wear clothes?' It takes all my will power to keep from snapping back, 'Yes, they do, you lascivious-minded old hypocrite.' " To people who find...