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Pedro Cardinal Segura y Saenz, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain, sat down and wrote a pastoral letter to his communicants last week...
Ever since the revolution Cardinal Segura has had gloomily in mind the rich church lands which seem likely to be taken away from him, some 50,000,000 gold pesetas of government tithes which he is almost certain to lose (though the cautious Alcala Zamora Government has made no definite steps toward the breaking of Church & State). Three weeks ago he attracted a certain amount of unfavorable attention by remarking in the course of a sermon: "May the Republic be cursed!" As it was impossible to blame this pastoral letter on any misquotation, Republican ministers raged. Fernando de los Rios...
Vatican City was reported not overpleased with impetuous Cardinal Segura. From the office of the Papal Secretary of State Cardinal Pacelli had already gone a message to all Spanish prelates to the effect that the Vatican now considers restoration of the Spanish monarchy impossible, instructing the Church to quiet all reactionary elements, and to lend its support to the formation of a clerical centre party, such as exists in Germany. Cardinal Segura was summoned to Rome to have a little talk with the Holy Father...
...father was a Segura, his mother a Saenz, so they called him (by old Spanish custom) Pedro Segura y Saenz. Little did his parents guess, as they stood beside the font at his baptism some 49 years ago, that their swarthy infant would one day be a great one of the Church. The diocese of Burgos, Spain, saw his birth. Burgos saw him consecrated as its Archbishop. But only a secret consistory of his peers in the Vatican last week saw Pope Pius XI confer on Burgos' Archbishop the red hat of the cardinalate, making him the titular priest...
Later in the week took place the public consistory at which Cardinals Rouleau, Binet, Lepicier and Szeredy received the great rolled-brim hats of their princely ranks. (Cardinal Segura y Saenz could not attend in person; will receive his hat at a later date...