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...Died. Maurilio Cardinal Fossati, 88, Archbishop of Turin since 1930, and one of Italy's most respected churchmen, who was a leading contender for the papacy in 1939 at the young age of 62, went through World War II as an active antiFascist, denouncing the mass transport of Italian laborers to Germany, sheltering Jewish refugees in the homes of Catholics, then, in 1945, persuading the retreating German army to bypass Turin, thus sparing the city from devastation; of pneumonia; in Turin...
Death has reduced the membership of the College to 52-half Italians, half non-Italians. Four of last week's appointments threw the balance in Rome's favor: those of Most Rev. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondi, apostolic delegate to the U. S. and Mexico; Most Rev. Maurilio Fossati, Archbishop of Turin; Most Rev. Angelo Maria Dolci, papal nuncio to Rumania; Most Rev. Elia Delia Costa, Archbishop of Florence. Non-Italian cardinals created were Most Rev. Jean-Marie Rodrigue Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and Most Rev. Theodor Innitzer, Archbishop of Vienna. It was said last week that Pius XI presented...
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