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Irish sentiment led John Cardinal Glennon to pause in his native Ireland as he flew back, a new-made Prince of the Church, from Rome to St. Louis. There last week, as it must to all men, Death came to Cardinal Glennon...
...anticlimax to Glennon's career. Said he, as the consistory in Rome began: "It is very touching to be remembered at a time of life when I should be forgotten...
...Bishop's Sons. A cardinal for only 18 days, Glennon had been a priest for 61 years, a bishop for six days short of 50 years, archbishop of St. Louis for 42 years. He had ordained some 4,700 young men to the priesthood and consecrated seven bishops, celebrated mass more than 22,000 times and administered the sacrament of confirmation to 225,000. He had established 93 parishes and built his own $3,800,000 Byzantine cathedral in St. Louis...
...teachings of the Church of Rome, had been preceded last week by a no less significant reminder of how fantastically the world had changed since the Sacred College first met in the 12th Century: two giant planes had brought to Rome the new U.S. cardinals-Archbishops John J. Glennon of St. Louis. Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago, Edward Mooney of Detroit and Francis J. Spellman of New York...
...first time in history prelates flew to Rome to receive the red hat. The air travelers from the U.S.: New York's Francis J. Spellman, Detroit's Edward Mooney, Chicago's Samuel Stritch, 83-year-old John J. Glennon of St. Louis, Bishop Thomas Tien of Tsingtao, China. In a dither of pride, TWA officials billed the flight-three gleaming, four-motored planes, "the most distinguished mass-flight of passengers across the North Atlantic in aviation history...