Word: vows
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prince Alban Lowenstein Wertheim Freudenberg was formerly a Captain in the Hanover Uhlans. General von Reichlin-Meldegg was formerly military commander of Ingolstadt, Bavaria. Both are now Franciscan monks, having taken the vow in Munich. The distinguishing characteristic of the Franciscan order is: Imitation of the public life of Christ, especially His poverty and simplicity- "A poor and scanty use of earthly goods." Their dress is brown robe with white girdle...
History. In the early 1600's the Thirty Years' War* ravaged Bavaria in which lies Ober-Ammergau. War was followed by the Black Plague, which was worse. To avert the plague, the Ober-Ammergau villagers, meeting in a churchyard, vowed to "enact the Passion-tragedy in honor of the bitter sufferings and death of our dear Lord" every tenth year forever. Fulfillment of the vow began with a play given in the churchyard...
...Sisters of Charity was modeled after the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent, France. The Sisters embrace Charity, in whose arms they live and die. They vow chastity and bind themselves to obedience. They care for the sick and poor. Their dress is black, covered with a short cape. Their white muslin cap, with a crimped border, has a black crepe band, is fastened under the chin...
...witnessed many a deed and vow...
...spectacular opera needs, these are stunning figures. Morale. Now, if you strolled casually into the artists' entrance of the opera house during the height of the season and observed the laughing, joking, careless manner of the groups of singers and musicians whom you would encounter, you might easily vow that it was impossible properly to put on so many productions with such an air of levity prevailing-an air so different from the orthodox solemn bustle of " efficiency." You would, if you looked deeper, observe beneath all the care less lounging and joviality, a hard, stern pressure, relaxed when...