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Death, the Black Pontifex, came last week to Louis Nazaire, Cardinal Begin, Archbishop of Quebec and Catholic Primate of Canada. Magnificent in scarlet stole, guarded by a detachment of the Papal Zouaves, his body lay in the chapel of his palace in Quebec while thousands of those whose souls had been in his custody passed humbly before him, one by one. Then he was carried underground...
Louis Nazaire was born on a farm near Quebec, won a prize at the University of Montreal, went abroad to be ordained. He studied Hebrew in Rome, went to Innsbruck to learn polity from the Jesuits, made a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. In Canada he carried on a Holy War against modernism, denounced jazz, dancing, said that cinemas offered "serious dangers, if not approximate occasions, of mortal sin," forbade the clandestine sale of liquors...
Died. Louis Nazaire Cardinal Begin, 85, Archbishop of Quebec, Catholic primate of Canada; in Quebec, of uremia followed by paralysis...
History. Seventy-four years ago in the Province of Quebec, a son, Francis E., was born to an obscure New Englander named Symmes. Two years later he was orphaned, was adopted by his uncle, Rev. E. W. Clark, changed his name, grew up as Francis E. Clark. Dartmouth College and Andover Theological Seminary having graduated him, the youthful parson accepted a call to a tiny church in Portland, Me., and started a diary. Presently he wrote...
Last week, one of the few of this venerable class announced its passing. Founded in 1764, The Quebec Daily Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, oldest paper in Canada, published without interruption for 161 years, quietly disappeared. The cause: merger...