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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...
Thus passed the spiritual leader of some 5,000,000 Roman Catholics in Canada and the most influential man in Quebec. A short (5 ft. 6 in.) man with a round body and face, keen dark eyes and spectacles that perched halfway down his nose, the Cardinal was also a power in Canada. Of recent years, his influence has been exerted notably to guide Quebec away from her isolationism and toward greater unity with the rest of the Dominion...
...Born in Montreal, he was ordained a priest at 23. For the next 23 years he taught philosophy, morals, liturgy and canon law at the University of Ottawa. Then in 1930 he was named Bishop of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan. A year and a half later he was made Archbishop of Quebec; hardly more than a year after that, a Cardinal. Never in Canadian ecclesiastical history had anyone risen from priest to Cardinal so fast...
Leader M. J. Coldwell. And in Mackenzie King's speech last November in Quebec, he made what was considered a left-handed bid to the socialist CCF to join the Liberals, in a pointed remark about the ineffectiveness of "a multiplicity of parties...
...public enemy. Annabella is as pretty as any female agent need be, but she parachutes into occupied France, goes briskly about her hazardous work and never once bats an eyelash at either Nazi or Ally. All the French streets and London buildings in Rue Madeleine were photographed in Quebec and New England. Now that studio technicians have learned how to reproduce everything from the Gare du Nord to the Himalayas right in Hollywood,* Producer de Rochemont is plugging for the revolutionary theory that everything-rooms, street scenes, shipyards, etc.-should be shot on the actual spot and not on phony...