Word: misericordia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cardinal Villeneuve, Archbishop of Quebec and top-ranking member of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in Canada, had suffered two heart attacks in six months. A fortnight ago he left Manhattan's Misericordia Hospital for California, hoping to convalesce in a convent at Alhambra. There, around 7 o'clock one morning last week, Msgr. Paul Nicole, the Cardinal's secretary, entered the prelate's room vested for Mass. The Cardinal was sitting before a small altar. The secretary finished the Introit (preliminary to Mass). Then the Cardinal interrupted...