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...shaped and intertwined as to spell out suggestively rather than distinctly the inscription: Furore Teutonico Diruta; Dono Americano Restituta ("Destroyed by Teuton Fury; Restored by American Gift"). He has always claimed that this inscription was written and entrusted to him by Belgium's late famed hero-prelate, Desiré Cardinal Mercier. To alter the wording by so much as one letter would, he said, not only outrage his artistic conscience by spoiling the effect of the balustrade, but it would also be a base betrayal of the sainted Cardinal...
What "furor" meant to Desiré Mercier was discreetly hinted by foxy Architect Warren, who revealed that the Cardinal said, two months before his death: "When the Germans come back [to Louvain] as they will and as they have through the past centuries, when they read this inscription countersigned by America perhaps they may behave themselves more decently than they did the last time...
...Bordeaux, in a rue Ste. Catherine charcuterie (delicatessen), one Desirée Dumas sliced bologna. Her store cat watched harpy-like, leaped at a falling morsel, seized it, rushed outside, scuttled under the house. Mile. Dumas had sliced off her finger...
...Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier, Primate of Belgium, Archbishop of Malines, was one of those rare men who in youth so thoroughly foresee their life work that the desiccating years cannot warp the fulness of their ideals, can scarcely shrivel even their bodies. Yet his disease did waste him to scarcely 100 pounds...
...while he was papal nuncio in Brussels, had noted the young priest), conceived the idea of establishing a chair of philosophy in the University of Louvain to counter-balance the disarray of ideas prevalent among its students. For this professorship, all praise and recommendations centred in the studious priest, Desiré-Joseph Mercier. To Rome he went; conferred with many, including Pope Leo himself; outlined a Thomist program of scholastic philosophy with such clearness and understanding that he won quick approval. At Louvain adherents of the new professor feared he might see too many vacant benches at his first lecture...