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Died. Francesco Cardinal Borgongini Duca, 70, one of the chief negotiators in the establishment of a sovereign Vatican state in 1929, since that date the papal nuncio to Italy, author (1952) of The Seventy Weeks of Daniel and the Messianic Date, in which he used the cryptographic prophecies in the book of Daniel to establish the date of Christ's crucifixion as April 7, A.D. 30; of a heart ailment; in Rome...
...able, and Boston's William Cardinal O'Connell sent him to Rome's North American College, where young Americans of exceptional promise are given the Church's most careful training. He developed a scholarly flair, impressed a tall, eloquent professor of theology named Borgongini-Duca. Spellman too was impressed: when he returned to the U.S. as a priest in 1916, he translated two of his master's books of devotions...
...into the Pope's apartment, placed upon a candlelit table. Vested in rose garments, Pius XI prayed over the Rose, incensed it, poured balsam and musk into a tiny cup in its centre. The Golden Rose will be presented to Italy's Queen after Easter by Monsignor Borgongini Duca, Papal Nuncio to Italy...
...Monsignor Spellman's side stood his two assistant consecrators, Monsignor Francesco Borgongini Duca, Apostolic Nuncio to Italy, and Monsignor Giuseppe Pizzardo, Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs. A choir sang. As Monsignor Spell man approached, it hushed; the 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...
...Cardinal Gasparri, Secretary of State, is received every day except Tuesday, when Mgr. Borgongini-Duca, pro-secretary for extraordinary ecclesiastical affairs, comes, and Friday when Mgr. Pizzardo, Assistant Secretary of State, comes...
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