Word: larraona
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Dates: during 1952-1952
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...Pope's personal representative, Monsignor Arcadio Larraona, Secretary of the Vatican's Congregation of Religious, set the tone: "Our gathering is a congress which is both genuinely religious and typically American." The overtones of the convention were simon-pure American, down to name badges for the delegates, a humorously written guide book, and a meeting place in a vast, Quonset-type building draped with U.S. flags and the Notre Dame college colors. Although there was no doubting the basic orthodoxy of the delegates' theology, some of the sentiments expressed would have sounded odd in conservative quarters...
...token of their unity, more than 2,000 delegates and clerical visitors marched slowly, four abreast, bearing candles to the grotto of the Blessed Virgin on the campus. There they chanted the rosary and the litanies of the church to bring the conference to a prayerful end. Said Father Larraona, pleased, "I return to the Vatican with a warm sense of gratitude. I will have many fine things to tell the Holy Father...
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