Word: apostolus
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When in 1906 Cardinal Goossens died and he was promoted from Monseigneur to Archbishop of Malines, he, audacious in his faith, announced as his episcopal motto: Apostolus Jesu Christi. A year later he got the red hat of Cardinal and the pastorate of Saint-Pierre-és-Liens, ancient church symbolical of religious fidelity and intrepidity among persecutions, fidelity and intrepidity which he needed and had when, in 1914, the Germans overran Belgium. Practically imprisoned in his palace, yet he sent out pastoral letters to the two and a half million faithful in his see, urging them to patriotism...
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