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...intoning, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, tall Papal Secretary of State, opened last week the first consecration of a U. S. bishop ever to take place in St. Peter's in Rome. In full pontificals the Cardinal sat solemnly on a faldstool before the altar. Before him, bowing low in the cope, biretta and white stole of a priest, was Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman, 43, onetime grocer's boy and sandlot baseball player in Whitman, Mass., named last month by the Holy See to be Auxiliary Bishop of Boston (TIME, Aug. 15). In three great tribunes sat the entire Vatican...
...assistant consecrators bowed slightly. Petitioning that Monsignor Spellman be made a bishop, Monsignor Borgongini Duca gave to Cardinal Pacelli the apostolic mandate. Then the Cardinal began to catechize the priest who had once been an assistant to his secretariat. Catechized, Monsignor Spellman was assisted up the steps to the altar, where he kissed the episcopal ring...
...vested in pontifical garments, the Bishop-elect joined the Cardinal in celebrating mass, each at his own altar. Then said Cardinal Pacelli: "It behooves a bishop to judge, interpret, consecrate, offer, baptize and confirm"; and while the choir chanted the Litany of the Saints, Bishop-elect Spellman lay prostrate on the floor...
...hands, thrice prayed "Whatsoever thou shalt bless, may it be blessed . . ." and Monsignor Francis Joseph Spellman was a bishop. He took his crosier (pastoral staff), episcopal ring, book of Gospels, mitre and gloves, and proceeded through St. Peter's, blessing the congregation as he went. Returning to the altar. Bishop Spellman genuflected thrice, wished his consecrator well with a thrice- intoned "Ad multos annos" (for many years...
...white priests (New York City has no black ones). Also present were three monsignori and Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dunn. Presently 30 more priests were to be called in, so great was the crowd. Bishop Dunn celebrated mass, during which the Knights of St. John stood before the altar rail as a guard of honor, with their shiny swords uplifted during the consecration. The Negro communicants were greeted by Monsignor Michael J. Lavelle, St. Patrick's rector, who said: "You are fellow citizens with the saints. . . . There is no one that we welcome with more outstretched arms than...