Word: mcguigan
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Died. James Cardinal McGuigan, 79, the first English-Canadian cardinal and from 1935 to 1971 Archbishop of Toronto; of a heart attack; in Toronto. In 1930 McGuigan became Archbishop of Regina, Sask.-at 35 the world's youngest archbishop. During the Depression, he sold his bishop's palace to the Franciscans to ease his diocese's heavy debts. In 1946 the soft-spoken cleric was elevated to the College of Cardinals by Pope Pius...