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Vol. XXVII. No. 3 TWENTY-EIGHT PAGES
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA, MARCH 30, 1946
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Flnal Homage to Cardinal Glennon in See City Cardinal Glennon Laid to Rest.
in Crypt of St. Louis Cathedral
(By N. C. VV. C. News Service)
ST. LOUIS.—Three of this no
tion s four Cardinals were present
at the Solemn Pontifical Mass of
Requiem for His Eminence John
Cardinal Glennon, Archbishop of
St. Louis, which climaxed a three-
day period of mourning, seldom
if ever equalled in the long an
nals of this city.
The Cathedral of Saint Louis
was filled to overflowing when
Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Ci-
eognani. Apostolic Delegate to the
United States, pontificated at the
Mass. Besides the, Cardinals, who
occupied thrones beneath a canopy
of penitential purple, there were
scores of Archbishops and Bishops
in the Sanctuary, while hundreds
ot priests and Religious from
many communities filled a-section
of the vast edifice.
Besides the dignitaries of the
Church, personalities of the Fed
eral, State and city governments
were in attendance. These includ
ed Postmaster General Robert 10.
GERMAN CARDINAL
CLAIMED BY DEATH
A view of the main altar in the new Cathedral of St. Louis, during the Solemn Pontifical Mass of
Requiem foi the late Archbishop of St. Louis, John Cardinal Glennon. who died in Ireland just twentv
days after receiving the Red Hat in Rome. The Apostolic Delegate to the United S ates Cardi ,
Mooney, of Detroit, Cardinal St,itch, of Chicago. Cardinal Spellman, o? New York^ many Archbishops
Cardfnars P Red e H»t am ° ng h He ,hous ? n . d . s w f ho fille(1 the Vi,st ? d 'Ciec for the funeral ceremonies The late
Mooned Stliteh and^ y ellman C -lNC Photos. ^ b,W - °" the thr °" e a ‘ righ ‘ are the ^dlnal,
VV A S II INGTQN. — (NC) —
Through a statement issued at
the White House President
Harry S. Truman expressed re
gret at his inability to attend
the funeral of Cardinal Glcn-
non, "an old and valued friend."
The President’s secretary told
reporters that Mr. Truman
would have liked personalty to
pay final honors to the late
Prince of the Church, but could
not leave Washington at that
time.
Bulletins
C A It hi N A L MINDSZENTY,
Primate of Hungary, whose failure
to reach the Eternal City in time
for the opening of Consistory week
had caused considerable concern,
finally arrived in an American
airplane which General William S.
Keys, chief of the IJ. S. military
mission in Budapest, had placed at
his disposal. General Keys ac
companied the Prelate to Rome.
TRIBUTES to Hje late John
Cardinal Glennon, Archbishop of
St, Louis, were paid in addresses
delivered on the floor of the House
of Representatives J o li n M.
Cochran and John B. Sullivan,
both of Missouri.
I>R. ISAAC HALEVI HERZOG.
Chief Rabbi of Palestine, was re
ceived by His Holiness Pope l’ius
XII when the Jewish leader visited
the Eternal City. The Rabbi ex
pressed to the Holy Father his
deepest gratitude for what Hie
Catholic Church had done to aid
the Jews during the war.
AT THE REID MEMORIAL
Presbyterian Church in Augusta,
the Rev. Massey Mott Heltzel, the
pastor, announced as a sermon
topic on a recent Sunday: “Good
St. Patrick.”
ON THE LAST DAY of his stay
in this country, Winston Churchill
called on Cardinal Francis J.
Spellman, Archbishop of New
Turk, who escorted the former
British Prime Minister on a tour
of St. Patrick’s Cathedral and was
later a luncheon guest at Mr.
Churchill's apartment.
MYRON TAYLOR TO
RETURN TO VATICAN
WASHINGTON. IT (NC) My
ron C. Taylor will retyrn to Vati
can City as President’ Harry S.
Truman's personal representative
to the Holy See, it has bee,, an
nounced at the White House.
The announcement was made
after Mr. Taylor conferred with
(he President. Mr. Taylor (old
newspapermen dial he was "not
sure ol the date when lie will
resume his post:
The announcement of Mr. Tay
lors return was made by Charles
G. Ross. White House press sec
retary. He said that Mr. Taylor
will retain the same status under
President Truman that he held
under the late President Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Mr. Taylor was the
personal representative of Presi
dent Roosevelt • at the Vatican
since 1939. and has been in this
country since last August,
THE ELEVATION of Monsignor
Albert Gregory Meyer, rector of
St. Francis Seminary, Milwaukee,
by Ilis Holiness Pope Pius XII to
be Bisbop of Superior, has been
announced by Archbishop Amleto
Giovanni Cicogani. Apostolic Dele
gate to the United States. Mon-
signor Meyer will succeed Bishop
William P. O'Connor, who last
month was translated from the
Superior See to the hewly-
created Diocese of Madison.
BISHOP GEORGE J. DONNEL
LY, Auxiliary of the Archdiocese
of St. Louis, has been named Ad
ministrator of the Archdiocese.* He
will remain in this capacity until
a successor to Cardinal Glennon is
appointed by the Iloly See.
State Department Answers
Baptist Protest Regarding
“U. S. Embassy at Vatican”
* ATLANTA, Ga.—The Christian
Index, organ of the Baptists of
Georgia, published in Atlanta,
contained in its issue dated
March 14. 1946, in its “This
(Jianging World" department,
which is conducted by the Rev.-
Louie I), Newton, pastor of Druid
Hills Baptist' Church here, the
following item: k
Answering protests from the
Executive Committee of the
Southern Baptist Convention,
and the Georgia Baptist Con
vention, regarding the U.'S. Em
bassy at the Vatican, Francis II.
Russell, Chief Division of Pub
lic Liaison, Department of
State, writes, under date of Feb
ruary 1. 1946, “The Vatican is a
temporal state of which the
Pope is the reigning sovereign,
and relations with it do not sig
nify recognition of a religion
but of an independent temporal
state whose ruler happens also
to be a religious leader.”
BISHOP CLEMENT MATHIEU
of Aire and the Mother Abbess of
Poyanne, France, have been dec
orated by the Belgian government
for tlicir action in 1940 in hiding
(he files of the royal House of
Belgium in the convent of the
Benedictines of Poyanne near the
Spanish border.
STATISTICS DISCLOSED by the
Commission for Catholic Missions
among the Colored People and In
dians reveal that there arc approx
imately 314,000 Negro Catholics
in the United States, and around
100,(MM Indian Catholics.
Hannegan: Governor Phil M: Don
nelly of Missouri;' Mayor Aloys P.
Kaufmann, of St. Louis, and Scan
Nunan. Counselor of .the Irish Le
gation in Washington.
It was estimated that during the
three-day period of mourning,
more than 150,000 persons passed
the bier of the Cardinal, in a final
gesture of homage.
As Hie procession of Prelates
moved lo the Cathedral for the
Mass, it was estimated that some
10,000 persons were thronged in
(lie streets outside.
Their Eminences Edward Car
dinal Mooney. Archbishop of De
troit: Samuel Cardinal Stritch,
Archbishop of Chicago, and Fran
cis Cardinal Spellman. Archbish
op of New York, were clad in their
brilliant robes and ermine capes.
Their birettas and zueliettos were
scarlet and the breviaries which
I hey Held in their hands were
bound in red leather.
On the opposite side of the al
tar, Archbishop Cicognani occu
pied (lie throne that formerly had
been Cardinal Glennon’s.
The* sermon was preached by
Bishop Christopher E. Byrne, of
Galveston, who had serve’d lor
more than a score of years as a.
priest in Si. Louis before his elc."
vation to the Episcopacy.
As tlie Cardinals passed (lie cas
ket of Cardinal Glennon on their
way to tlie Sanctuary, each paused
and gave his blessing to the fel-
low-Prinoe of the Church.
A1 the conclusion of the Mass,
Archbishop Cicognani, Bishop
George Donnelly.'Auxiliary of St.
Louis; Bishop Christian H. Wln-
kelman of Wichita. Bishop Henry
P. Althoff of Belleville, and. Bish
op ' Paul C. Schulte of Lcavonr
worth intoned tlie final blessings
ever the Cardinal’s body.
When (lie Mass was concluded,
the body ol Cardinal Glennon was
moved lo the All Souls Chapel,
there to be buried in a crypt which
I he Cardinal personally had se-
leeted as his final resting place.
CARDINAL VON GALEN
Announcement lias been made
by the British occupation authori
ties in Germany of the death, on
March 22. of His Eminence Clem
en August Cardinal Count Von
Galen. Bishop of Muensler.
Cardinal Von Galen, who re
cently returned to Germany from
Vatican City where he was made
a member of tlie Sacred College
of Cardinals by Ilis Holiness Pope
at the recent Con-istory,
Pius XII at the
underwent an operation for peri-
| tonitis last week. He was the
| second of the new Cardinals to die
! -since (he Consistory, Cardinal
| Glennon. Archbishop of St. Louis,
| having died in Eire on March 9.
i Cardinal Von Galen’s death re
duces the number of members of
I he Sacred College to sixty-seven.
Long known as one of the most
courageous and inflexible enemies
of Nazism, Cardinal Von Galen
voiced a criticism of the pagan
aspects of the * Nazi regime in a
sermon delivered in 1934. In 1944
llie British Broadcasting Company
reported that the Nazis had plac
ed him under house arrest, and
I lie New Review of London named
him one of (lie five greatest he
roes of 1941.
Descended from the old Ger
man aristocracy, Cardinal Von
Galen was a son of Count Ferdi
nand Herbert Von Galen and
was horn at tlie castle of Dink-
■ onn m old en.sburg. March 10
1H79. He attended the Universi
ties of Frieburg in Switzerland,
Innsbruck and Muenster. He was
ordained in 1904, and went to Ber
lin where he remained until 1929
when he returned to Muenster. be
ing consecrated Bishop at tHal
Sec in 1933.
DUBLIN.—On March 13. His
Eminence John Cardinal Glennon,
Archbishop of St Louis, left
Eire’s green shores for 'the last
time.
More than 61 years ago. a young
seminarian who had completed his
studies at All Hallows College, but
who was still too young to receive
Holy Orders, set out for the
United States on a long and te
dious voyage by boat. This time he
left Ireland in ’a giant, space-de
vouring airplane. This time lie
wore not the simple, black suit of
a young seminarian, but the pur
ple and scarlet robes of a Prince
<>f the Church. This time, his
hands clutched a silver crucifix
in death.
The special plane wliicli carried
Cardinal Glennon’s body back to
liis beloved St. Louis for inter
ment waiter at Rineanria airport,
as a solemn an sorrowing cortege
linished a six-hour journey from
Mullingar, where an old friend,
Bishop John D’Alton of Meath, of-
liciated at a Pontifical Mass of
Requiem in the Cathedral of
Christ the King, which tlie late
Archbishop of St. Louis helped so
largely to build.
There also was a Mass in the
chapel of All Hallows College,
Dublin, where the late Cardinal
had been a student. Celebrant of
tlie Holy Sacrifice was' Monsignor
John P. Cody, Chancellor of (he
Archdiocese of St. Louis and Car
dinal Glennon’s constant compan
ion on his journey to Rome to re
ceive the Red Hat of cardinali-
tial dignity. Archbishop John Me-
Quaid of Dublin was in the sanc
tuary.
Between AH Hallows and Mul
lingar. thei'e was a brief stop of
tlie funeral procession at Kinno-
gad, where the Cardinal had re
ceived the Sacrament of Baptism
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