Word: bonzano
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Giovanni Cardinal Bonzano, 60, onetime (1912-22) Apostolic Delegate from Rome to the U. S.; in Rome; after an operation a fortnight ago. He it was who as liason official arranged for an exchange of letters between Piux X (who sought to end the World War) and the late President Woodrow Wilson...
...candle-bearer on each side. Then followed, seriatim, colorbearers, resplendent church flags, cherubic altar boys ranging in size upwards like steps, seminarians four abreast in black cassocks with white surplices. Last, preceded by pages and surrounded by a retinue of priests, marched the scarlet cardinals,* with purple-clad Prelate Bonzano dispensing blessings upon his genuflecting worshipers. Said Cardinal Hayes in delivering the sermon: ". . . . This magnificent edifice ... is in very truth 'a structural Te Deum.' ... In the early centuries it was through the preaching of 'Jesus Christ and Him crucified' that the church drew under His yoke...
...procession were: Archbishop Glennon; John Cardinal Bonzano, Papal Legate; Cardinals von Faulhauber, Primate of Germany; O'Donnell, Primate of All Ireland; Hayes, of New York...
After a solemn Pontifical Mass to be celebrated by Cardinal Bonzano and a sermon by Cardinal Hayes of New York, the thousands of priests were to form in procession to pass myriads of the devout who lined the Seminary pathways. At the end of the line would come Cardinal Bonzano carefully holding high a huge gold monstrance in which rested the Blessed Sacrament...
...priests would circle the grounds back to the altar-then the pontifical Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament by Cardinal Bonzano-his papal benediction to the throng, Adeste fideles...