Word: jesuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, in Manhattan, 49-year-old German Jesuit Lassalle described how he did it. The Japanese in Brazil, he explained, came there originally to farm and fish, make their fortunes and return home. The Jesuits first became interested in them in 1924 as a means toward the tough job of converting Japan...
...tall, whip-smart young Jesuit named Father Hernan Benitez saw to it that Eva Perén's visit to Paris was the works. He showed up in the French capital ahead of time, quickly signed up the big shots for dinners and receptions, arranged a sightseeing schedule that omitted few historical monuments. But Father Benitez, who is both Evita's chaperon and confessor, could do nothing about the weather. The weather was cruel...
This is the report brought back from a seven-month, 36,000-mile swing around the Near and Far East by two top U.S. Jesuits: Missionary-Photographer Father Bernard Hubbard ("The Glacier Priest") and Father Calvert Alexander, onetime reporter for the St. Louis Star-Times and now editor of the monthly Jesuit Missions...
...Born in Lisbon in 1647, De Britto became a Jesuit at 15. In 1673 he traveled to India to preach Christianity. He converted a Maravese prince and then demanded that the prince dismiss all of his wives but one. Among the wives was a niece of the King of Marava; she objected so effectively that De Britto was beheaded...
...increasing friendship with Argentina, as exemplified last week by the jubilant reception for Strong-Man Perón's wife (see LATIN AMERICA). Another is the regime's conviction that it enjoys the blessings of the Vatican. At High Mass last Sunday in Madrid's biggest Jesuit church, just before the elevation of the Host, I heard organ and choir strike up Franco's national anthem while the congregation stood at attention or sank to its knees...