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...Catholic Church, had grown lax and easygoing in 16th Century Spain, and Teresa eventually found herself setting out to reform them. The result was a strangely dual life that has been one of the wonders and inspirations of Christian history. Though tormented by constant bad health, St. Teresa of Avila was busy and effective in a world of power politics that was dangerous and corrupt. At the same time, she explored the paths of mystical experience as few Christians have done before or since...
...they chipped in and built the Avila Hotel in Caracas, Venezuela. The deal paid off, but such casual choices as that and McDonnell aircraft were not satisfactory to the methodical Rockefellers. Three years ago the Rockefellers formed Rock Bros., to put their capital to work. They already had a treatise to guide them. David, the youngest of the family, who "works down at the bank" (Chase National), got his Ph.D. on "The Theory of Capital Resources and Economic Waste...
...Roman Catholic Mexico the members of his sect, who are most numerous in rural areas, are generally treated as outcasts. Their revivalistic meetings are sometimes stoned. Small boys ring Evangelista doorbells, then run, or paint Viva Cristo Rey (Long Live Christ the King) on Evangelista walls. Since President Manuel Avila Camacho announced in 1940 that he was a "believer," and thus took the government heat off the Roman Catholic church, anti-Protestant persecution of the proselyting Evangelistas has steadily grown. Last week it was at a new peak...
...Naples to a devout, middle-class family from Piedmont. He began preaching while still a student at the University of Padua (he estimates that he has talked to a round total of 4,000,000 people). His favorite authors are the two great Catholic mystics, Saint Teresa of Avila and Saint John of the Cross, and in his tiny, bare, blue-walled room in Rome's Via Ripetta he spends most of his time praying. During his travels he tries to keep himself always "in communion with...
Razor Blades & Babies. He was visiting Mexico in 1942 when the U.S. and Britain put him on their economic black list (TIME, June 29, 1942). This shut him off from his Swedish empire, but he fortunately made an influential new friend, the late Maximino Avila Camacho, enormously rich and powerful brother of then-President Manuel Avila Camacho. Wenner-Gren also had some spare change with him, $1 or $2 million. With Maximino's help he put the money to work...