Word: monsignors
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...Priest . . ." Twelve thousand tough, enthusiastic young Milanese Catholics jammed into the Great Hall to honor St. Ambrose and hear militant words. Cried Monsignor Adelmo Bicchierai, spokesman of Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan: "The time has come to live again the days when the Lombards rose around Alberto di Giussano.* . . . We must be ready for victorious martyrdom...
...packed crowd cheered the Monsignor's final words-the message of Cardinal Schuster himself, who sat a few feet away tightly clasping his cross: "It is the duty of every right-thinking man to support the Government in its difficult struggle. . . . Let the Milanese be worthy followers of their patron St. Ambrose. May St. Ambrose protect Milan...
...robes of violet to robes of white, he proceeded to the nearby Basilica of Notre Dame (the same church in which he had been baptised, confirmed, and ordained) for the ritual of enthronement. With all the solemnity that bespeaks the age-old traditions of the Church, the Apostolic Delegate, Monsignor Ildebrando Antoniutti, bestowed upon him the crosier, symbolic of his office, then led him to the archiepiscopal throne...
...World War II, Monsignor Salvatore Montes de Oca, onetime Bishop of Valencia, Venezuela, gave refuge to Italian Partisans in a monastery near Lucca, where he was staying. The Germans executed him and the Partisans he tried to save. Last week the body of the martyr was brought back to Venezuela. It lay in state in the Cathedral of Caracas, while representatives of the Church, Government and Army paid tribute, before burial in Valencia...
Quebec Catholics, and Canadians at large, were quick to point out the parallel between his career and that of Cardinal Villeneuve. The latter was a seminarian, free from factional ties, consecrated at 46 and given the red hat less than three years later. Canadians wondered whether Monsignor Roy would complete the parallel by becoming a cardinal at the next Papal consistory...