Word: sulpician
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Superior General of the Order of St. Sulpice, Father Jean Vedier visited the U. S. in 1923. Born of a modest family, he was a scholarly, obscure teacher until Pope Pius XI jumped him over innumerable bishops and made him Archbishop and Cardinal (TIME, Dec. 2, 1929). First Sulpician ever to get a red hat, Cardinal Verdier was invested by Pius XI in person. He is currently in the U. S. on a tour of Sulpician houses. Though fluent in French, German and Italian, he speaks little English, has for interpreter and traveling companion Very Rev. John F. Fenlon, superior...