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Another New York church received a major relic last week when Archbishop Francis J. Spellman presented to the parish church of St. Helena in The Bronx a piece of the True Cross miraculously discovered on Calvary on May 3, A.D. 326, by St. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, the first Christian emperor of Rome. Said the Archbishop: "This . ... relic of the True Cross [is] one of the largest pieces outside St. Peter's in Rome and the Church of St. John of the Cross in Jerusalem. It was verified as a true relic 126 years ago in Rome...
...fellow Americans Archbishop Francis J. Spellman of New York, onetime (1925-32) member of the Vatican Secretariate of State, explained the Holy See's viewpoint: acceptance of such a mission is entirely justified because 1) the Vatican remains neutral during world conflicts and hence must accept an ambassador from any country that chooses to send one, 2) diplomatic relations enable the Pope to keep in touch with Roman Catholics in every nation, 3) reception by the Vatican of a diplomat does not mean that it approves the actions of the country which sent the diplomat. Many nations have broken...
...When Maryknoll's first martyr was kidnapped by bandits from his mission in Manchukuo and strangled, New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman wrote: "In many a missionary heart there throbs a holy envy of Father Gerard Donovan...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman handed New York City's Red Cross $1,000 for the war fund, disclosed that he had contributed one pint of ecclesiastical blood for the blood bank...
...same Rome rumors held that several Italian prelates and one other non-Italian, New York's Archbishop Francis J. Spellman, would soon be raised to the College of Cardinals. There are 18 vacancies, but the present Pope has not elevated anyone, because of war conditions "which do not permit freedom of selection in some countries." Reason advanced for the exception in favor of Spain: "the need for a cardinal as head of the Spanish ecclesiastical hierarchy at this difficult moment...