Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stubbornly, insistently President Alcala Zamora of newly Republican Spain has pressed Pope Pius XI to withdraw Spain's die-hard Royalist Primate. Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo (TIME, June 29). In Vatican City last week this long, silent diplomatic struggle ended with a decorous item in Osservatore Romano, Papal daily...
...Most Reverend Eminence, Cardinal Segura, has remitted into the hands of the Holy Father free renunciation of the Archbishop's See at Toledo. His Holiness has accepted it, expressing appreciation for the noble gesture the Cardinal has made with true generosity and supernatural spirit...
...during the Civil War. In 1868 he was appointed Missionary Bishop to the new Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, never forgot his welcome in Wilmington: a torchlight procession of drunken negroes, exulting in their new freedom. Youngest Bishop in his church at the Vatican Council of 1870, he became Archbishop of Baltimore in 1877, Cardinal...
Like its predecessor, that great & good seller Death Comes for the Archbishop, Shadows on the Rock is concerned with the American scene, colonial times. But Authoress Cather has moved from Spanish Southwest to French Northeast: the rock her story shadows is Quebec, at the turn of 1700. If you expect to encounter shades of Wolfe and Montcalm, of the storming of the Plains of Abraham, you will be disappointed; the story does not move that far (Quebec fell in 1759). There is not so much as an Indian fight and even the deeds of pioneering derring do are all messengered...
...Magazine; for four years she was managing editor. Critics paid her work attention almost from the start, but not till One of Ours won the Pulitzer Prize for 1922 was she admitted into the popular Hall of Fame. With A Lost Lady (1923) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) Willa Cather settled comfortably into her niche. Last June she was respectably canonized by Princeton University, which broke its long Presbyterian tradition to make her its first female recipient of a degree.* Once a mere squatter, Willa Cather is now a taxpaying, permanently-located resident on the U. S. Parnassus...