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...greater glory of the Lord and as a means of relieving unemployment. Jean Cardinal Verdier, benign grey Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris, has for some years pursued a vast churchbuilding program, at one time scheduling no fewer than 100 houses of God for construction over a period of ten years. Last week word reached the U. S. of the latest Les Chantiers du Cardinal-the Cardinal's building jobs. Soon to arise at Joinville-le-Pont, where the French cinema industry is largely centred (Paramount and Pathe studios and laboratories, Kodak-Pathe film factory), is a church for local...
Arriving from an audience with the Holy Father, Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris, declared, "This grand old man confided to me his agonizing anxieties. He reaffirmed to me that the eminently pacific policy of France remained on this earth his best and greatest hope." Declared United Press from Paris: "Premier Benito Mussolini has sent to Premier Laval his personal assurance that he will not quit the League and will not attack England...
...request, the minimum of necessary furniture. In the centre of Palermo Park, one of the world's largest, was erected a great cross, 100 ft. high, of white stucco, with great altars on all four sides. There Cardinal Pacelli joined with four other Princes of the Church-Verdier of Paris, Hlond of Poland, Cerejeira of Portugal and Leme da Silviera of Brazil-in opening the Congress to 600,000 Catholics, 75,000 of whom had come from outside Buenos Aires, 5,000 from overseas. As papal legate Cardinal Pacelli read a bull from the Pope. Excerpt...
...imprisonment instead of setting her before a firing squad. When Germany was beaten she went free and France gave her the Croix de Guerre and the Legion of Honor. To perform her marriage last week up rose in the gorgeous robes of a Prince of the Church, Jean Cardinal Verdier, Archbishop of Paris...
...candidate. Myriad chandeliers light the enormous basilica. The canonization ceremonies may cost as much as $30,000, which is borne by persons interested in the new saint. Last week St. Peter's was alight, packed with pilgrims from all nations including many a white-bonneted nun. Cardinals Verdier of Paris and Lienart of Lille, and Mrs. Bruno Benziger, wife of a Manhattan publisher, who was there as official representative of the New York Ladies of Charity. Pope Pius XI was borne in, amid cheers, on his high scdia gcstatoria. Gravely he presided over the lengthy canonization ceremony. Then...