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...Emanuele of Italy has baptised President Nicholas Murray Butler's new Italian House project for Columbia University with two paintings, one by Bottini and the other by Petiti. The cornerstone is to be laid at 117th street and Amsterdam avenue, August 5. Mussolini promises to donate Friar of Assisi memorials. A library of 15,000 volumes is being assembled which will comprehend the entire Italian civilization, its only counterpart existing in Venice. Further contributions to the Italian house are planned by the Italian Government, which wishes to encourage "this worthy cultural enterprise...
Encyclical. The great New York Times published the full text of the encyclical letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, announcing to his "venerable brothers" the celebration of the hepta-centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their...
...Anthony of Padua (1195-1231) was the most celebrated follower of St. Francis d'Assisi (1182-1226), whose seventh centenary will have world-wide celebration this year. St. Anthony is patron saint of Padua and of Portugal, the places respectively of his teachings and death and of his birth. His eloquence was so great that fishes were reported to jump out of the water to hear him. Devout clients appeal to him for the finding of lost articles. Miraculously he could cure erysipelas...
...allocution he deplored civil unrest in Italy; expressed sorrow for the tenseness between the Church, and the governments of Chile; Argentina, Mexico and Czechoslovakia; rejoiced over better conditions in France, Poland and Bavaria; announced the extension of the jubilee to the 700th centenary of Saint Francis d'Assisi. In 1928, the Ecumenical Council, which Italy's union in 1870 caused to be suspended, will probably be resumed where it left off. At that time many questions on the reuniting of schismatics, possibly the "Old Catholics" and perhaps even some Anglicans, will come up for the consideration...
...twist with this one. They hired a few professional actors and filled the other parts with pupils, thus giving the latter the privilege of appearing, as advertised, in a Broadway production. For this purpose they chose a poetical prize play on the life of St. Francis of Assisi. A goodly portion of the audience the opening night were parents of those concerned. It is likely that succeeding audiences, if any. will be similarly composed...