Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough for all the cardinals "unless they ruthlessly cut down their wardrobe." First to place his order was Palermo's Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, who knocked at the tailor's door the very morning he heard the happy news. Said Gammarelli last week: "I would want to satisfy them all but they will have to be patient and make...
...church was above the war by choosing three cardinals each from victorious France, defeated Germany and neutral, totalitarian Spain. But once more he was practical as well as spiritual: in France and Germany he took care to pick shining lights of the resistance. Outstanding selections: small, half-paralyzed Archbishop Jules-Géraud Saliege of Toulouse, who during France's occupation openly attacked German treatment of Jews and conscription of Frenchmen; massive, blue-blooded Bishop Clemens August von Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing...
...selecting two red hats for the Red-dominated part of Europe, Pius showed again that he knew exactly what he was doing. Poland's courageous, 78-year-old Archbishop Adam S. Sapieha had shared his people's sufferings and welcomed the Red Army. Hungary's new Primate, Archbishop Joseph Mindszenthy, had been imprisoned by the Nazis...
...Pope neglect the traditionally Protestant part of Europe. Britain's stocky, genial Bernard Griffin, 46, was the youngest cardinal appointed; Archbishop Johannes de Jong of Utrecht was the first Dutch diocesan to receive the red hat since the Reformation...
...York's plump, tireless, globetrotting, auctorial* Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman learned of his elevation on the eve of going home to his father's for Christmas in Whitman, Mass. Asked if his appointment made this his happiest homecoming, he said: "The happiest was the day I came home ordained after five years away and said Mass for my father and mother." The onetime grocer's boy and champion horseshoe pitcher, now the able and beloved shepherd of Catholicism's richest archdiocese, is one of Pius XII's closest friends, served under him in Rome...