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...their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran, who is still under virtual house arrest near Prague. One new East European cardinal who does govern his diocese is Yugoslavia's Primate, Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb. His careful policy of accommodation with Tito may lead to a restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia...
Since in pectore appointments are often made for political reasons, when public recognition from Rome might jeopardize a cardinal in his own country, Pope John's announcement touched off a rash of speculation about likely candidates in the Iron Curtain countries. Possibilities: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague; Monsignor Franjo Seper, former assistant to Yugoslavia's late Cardinal Stepinac...
...Boston's Patriots' Day Marathon had its usual motley of cigar-smoking clowns, bicycle riders and beer-drinking college boys who dropped out of the race when they got to Wellesley. But after the show-offs were gone, pale, frail Franjo Mihalic, 36, a Yugoslav printer, outlegged all the other hoofers to win the 26-mile, 385-yd. grind in 2:25:54. Second: Boston's defending champion, John J. Kelley...
...Despite Yugoslavia's censorship, news leaked out that a new priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...
...born, according to conflicting versions, on March 6, May 7 or May 25, 1892, the son of Franjo Broz, a Croat blacksmith, and his wife Maria. He was christened Josip at the Kmrovec Catholic church, and entered the parish school. According to some authorities, Tito was "a bad, violent schoolboy," who soon left his father's house, became a locksmith's apprentice...