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...that set them buzzing was neither an editor nor a priest, but a diminutive oldster (66) named Theodore Francis MacManus, big automobile adman (retired), longtime friend of Walter P. Chrysler, great & good friend of the late Pope Pius XI, who honored him with two knighthoods...
...Bishop Michael James Gallagher. What made this ceremony notable was that the church is one of the few parish churches in the U. S. maintained on a layman's estate, perhaps the only one in which lay Catholics may be buried. Its builders: Theodore Francis ("T. F.") MacManus & wife...
From the days of the Pope-Toledo and the Pope-Hartford, Theodore MacManus has been famed as an automotive adman. Born in Buffalo 60-odd years ago ("I have never bothered to look it up"), he has at one time or another written copy for practically every existent make of automobile, many a defunct one. Cadillac and Pontiac are now the chief accounts of MacManus, John & Adams Inc. "T. F." MacManus has never learned to drive...
...vigorously devout Catholic, Adman MacManus is a Knight of Malta, a Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory, an honorary doctor from Notre Dame, Detroit and Marquette Universities. Practiced at writing books such as Men, Money & Motors and The Sword Arm of Business, he turned to Catholic apologetics in An Enemy Sowed Cockles. Sympathetic with the interest of Pope Pius XI in Chinese education, Layman MacManus helped found the Catholic University of Peiping. All this smoothed the way for a request he made of the Holy See five years ago. Of the six MacManus sons and daughters...
...Nicholas Brady has chapels in her homes in Rome and Manhasset, Long Island. But according to Canon 1205, Section 2 of the Roman Catholic Church, only "popes, royal personages, cardinals, bishops and abbots'' may be buried inside a Catholic church. As his church began to rise, Layman MacManus asked, and got, permission in the form of a papal rescript granting him and his family the extraordinary right to be laid away in it. The MacManus church, called St. Hugo of the Hills, was there upon given the consecration necessary to hallow its ground. In its crypt were hollowed...