Word: ildebrando
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fortnight ago the Quebec Bishops' Sacerdotal Commission on Social Studies called on all Catholics, in the name of charity, to aid the strikers through Sunday church collections. Before the commission's report was published, three Duplessis ministers went to Ottawa and appealed to the Canadian Papal Delegate, Ildebrando Antoni-utti, to intervene. The answer they got was indicated at week's end by Quebec Archbishop Maurice Roy, who asked the commission statement be read in all pulpits and that strike collections be taken every Sunday until further notice...
...Died. Ildebrando ("Papa") Zacchini, 80, Italian-born circus impresario who introduced the human cannon ball act in 1922; in Tampa, Fla. Patriarch of two generations of the often injured but never killed "Flying Zacchinis" (the stunt has led 32 non-Zacchinis to their deaths), Ildebrando lost a leg seven years ago, after he had already retired to devote himself to painting...
...violet to robes of white, he proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...