Word: legatee
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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A few days before the most exalted of these, John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by Patrick Cardinal Hayes of New York. This was in New York bay, where yachts, sailboats, rowboats, tugs, scows interfered with the decorum of such...
In this long file of exalted spiritual triumph will come first the Catholic laity and the lesser clergy ?gold bannered folk, Dominican friars in their white cassocks, Trapist and Capuchin monks in brown, Benedictines and Jesuits in black?then the resplendent, gold-draped bishops and archbishops. Homage and glory...
Her fame swept throughout the world. At Paris, special permission was sought from the Pope to name a church after her-L'Eglise de la Petite Fleur. Welsh Catholics placed their Apostolate of the Faith under her protection. President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State planted the Irish standard...
Long before Chaucer began to build the English language, long before Buonarroti sketched his plans for St. Peter's, a British islander named Nicholas Breakspear became priest, then Abbot, then Cardinal, then Legate, then Pope, assuming the grand Roman Imperial name of Adrian (Hadrian) IV. And never before or...
It was in 1146 that Breakspear quit the monastery of which he was Abbot in a pleasant Province, and proceeded, as Cardinal-Legate, to the rough untutored northlands of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.