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Last week, the sound of hammering and building rang across the windswept slopes above New Zealand's Island Bay. Workmen were busy on a tomb for the woman who may some day be canonized as the first woman saint of the South Pacific-Suzanne Aubert de Laye, known to the church as Mother Marie Joseph Aubert...
Mother Mary Aubert, as the English colony called her, spent her days begging for her "Home of Compassion," collecting food in a wicker baby carriage which she wheeled through Wellington's streets. More & more women came to join her in her work and she called them "Sisters of Our Lady of Compassion." When the women quietly began to dig the foundations for a hospital, New Zealand's governor himself led a working party that completed...
...Mother Aubert died. In New Zealand today there are seven Homes of Compassion serving as hospitals, orphanages or homes for unmarried mothers. All are enthusiastically supported by both Protestant and Catholic New Zealanders. Last year her Sisters of Compassion were accorded papal approbation as an order of the Roman Catholic Church. And in New Zealand as in Rome, where the long process of her sainthood has just begun, they remember her words: "Never refuse the poor anything...
Next the Nazis tried terror. Two famed skiers, Krisitian Aubert and Tor Salvesen, were questioned by the Gestapo; burly torturers trampled on their chests until shattered ribs pierced their lungs. Skater Ivar Ballanrud and scores of other athletes were arrested. But of Norway's 300,000 organized sportsmen, no more than 1% went over to the quislings...
They Got Me Covered (Bob Hope, Dorothy Lamour, Lenore Aubert; TIME...