WAR TO PEACE
EX-OFFICERS IN MONASTERY. < Two hundred Prussian and Bavarian ex-army officers have abandoned their careers and the occupations they held since the close of the wav and have entered the big Franciscan monastery of Gorheim in the principality of Hohenzollern. Hohenzollern is the birthplace of the dynasty that ruled over Prussia for hundreds of years and that came to a close with Kaiser Wilhelm 11. Most of the Franciscan novices are scions of wealthy and noble families who fought with distinction in the imperial armies. War experiences left them in such a shattered mental anl moral condition that to preserve their very sanity they have renounced society and have retired from the world. Henceforth they propose to devote themselves solely, to works of charity and to the propagation of the ideals of peace and human brotherhood according to the conceptions of St. Francis of Assisi, the founder and patron of the order to which they now belong. Although their lives will be chietly devoted to spiritual interests, they will take an active part in humanitarian movements* that look for the abolition of war and its horrors.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 March 1929, Page 11
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