Word: cardinalate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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"Similarly I had been told that Cardinal Mercier was dying and could not last another week. I dined with him at his palace in Malines shortly before I sailed and found him active and full of constructive ideas for the benefit of his people. . . .*
2) Enrico Gasparri, recently apostolic nuncio in Brazil, nephew of His Eminence Peter Cardinal Gasparri, Papal Secretary of State and Camerlengo, prospective administrator of certain papal functions should the Pope die;
For His Eminence Enrico Cardinal Gasparri, nephew of a living Cardinal, His Holiness had to dispense from his Church rule: "In keeping with the provisions for the promotion to the nobility, illegitimates, even when legitimated by later marriage, are ineligible, also the fathers of legitimate children, nephews of cardinals and...
As the Pope named these four, each cardinal present rose in his place, lifted his scarlet biretta as sign of agreement or mayhap retained it in firm objection. Who, if any, dissented from the Pope's nomination, no outsider will ever know, for each cardinal has gone through the...
Monday afternoon three of the nominees (Cardinal Cerretti must stay watchfully in Paris to guard the frail French-Vatican relations) were summoned to the Pope's apartments. In the antechamber a sottoguardaroba handed each his scarlet zucchetto. Capped they proceeded into the presence of His Holiness who placed on...