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Later the royal party was driven to the great Church of Ste. Gudule, half way up the precipitous slope which ascends from the lower town to the royal and aristocratic quarter. At the church, Monsignor de Greve, representing Cardinal Mercier,* welcomed Prince Leopold in the name of the ecclesiastical authorities of Belgium. Finally the royal motors snorted up the last and steepest part of the hill, traversed the famed avenue once sacred to the residences of courtiers, brought Prince Leopold "home"- to what is considered by many architects "the handsomest modern royal palace in Europe...
...account of the death of Desire Joseph Cardinal Mercier, see RELIGION...
Death came last week to Desiré-Joseph Cardinal Mercier. At it the dying one looked with composure, with a clear mind, a peaceful mind. For days he knew he had no further earthly hopes. Three weeks before, under a local anesthetic, he had been operated upon for a stomach ulcer; and he had watched the operation with the understanding gained in his early days as a medical student. He had seemed to rally. But the long precedent persistent dyspepsia, which had made nutrition insufficient for "his active life, had been an incubus to his strength. Food he swallowed...
Desire Cardinal Mercier is 74 years old. He is Archbishop of Malines and Primate of Belgium. He likes to be active and there is always work to be found, if it is only the restoration of the library at Louvain University or a general critique of metaphysics. And unless one can eat a plenty, keep well nourished, one cannot keep active for long at a time...
...Cardinal Mercier had persistent dyspepsia. There was a lesion of the stomach which a little surgical treatment would put quite to rights. But the doctors feared a 74-year-old heart might not take kindly to chloroform or ether. Without ado the Cardinal bade them anaesthetize him locally. Last week he lay on a table calmly watching a scalpel open his torso, calmly discussing with his surgeon such aspects of the human interior as he recalled from the studies made in his youth under famed Dr. Charcot in Pariss...