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SIXTY-FIFTH YEAR.
Cardinal Serafini Passes Organised Carrying Out of Lateran Treaty
BISHOP OF BARCELONA REPORTED DEAD: FIRST NEWS FOR WHOLE YEAR.
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A.RDINAL Giulio &rarity, Pretect .)t the Congregation of the Council. died in Rome on Saturday. 16th. ult.. following a stroke, aged 71. Born at Bolsena in what was then the Papal States, he was ordained in 1890, named Bishop of Pescia, 'a uscany. 17 years later and in the same year was transferred as secretary of the Congregation of the Council and made Titular Bishop of Lampsacus. A fter the Lateran Treaty in 1929 the Cardinal was appointed Deputy for t he Holy See on the commission for its application.
RDINAL BE RT RAM— Oldest German Bishop.
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&SPITE possible persecution. 130,000 German Catholic men took part this year in the annual pilgrimage to St. Anne's Hill, Upper SW esia. A t no time since the Great War had such a large number taken part. It was a definite demonstration to the authorities of the country's Catholic s trength. Five pleasure trips and a sports day for miners, organised by the Nazi leaders as cotrnter-attractions, were poorly attended. Cardinal Bertram, 79-year-old Archbishop of Breslau, oldest German Bishop, preached. "When cowards insult us, when ridicule accompanies our visits to church to receive the Holy Eucharist , we will
Mgr. Serafini became a Cardinal in 1930, with the title of Santa Maria Sopra Minerva. and Prefect of the Congregation of the Council. 62 Prelates at BuriaL The funeral took place on the Monday at the Santa Maria Sopra Minerva Church after Requiem Mass in the presence of 22 Cardinals. 40 Bishops, the Papal Court, the Diplomatic Corps. Rome civic representatives and numerous clergy. The Absolution was given by Cardinal Granito di Belmonte, oldest Cardinal. A brigade of all detachments of the Vatican garrison, with flags and band, attended. The body remained in the church where it will be buried.
show our contempt often," he said.
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A subsequent speaker asked the great - crowd if they wished to break • their bond of love and .union with Christ. They shouted "No. never!" The 130.000 sang the "Te Deum" together at the close.
Information received by the NCWC News Service, from a European sou-ce c f high reliability, states that it is a virtual certainty that the Bishop of Earcelcna. Mgr. Emanuel Irizr:ta, met a martyrE death, together with his major-dcmo, Don- Marccs Goni, and two brothers named Tort, on the night cf December 3-4, 1936. The "Universe.- of March 5, last year, reported, from a message which evaded the Barcelona cencor, that the Bishop of Barcelona was believed o be a;ive and in hiding. Until then the fate of the Bishop had been unknown V ATICAN DELEGATE AT SCIENCE CONGRESS. Canon K. L. Belton, professor of religious history and philosophy and Rector Magnificus of Nimwegen Catholic University in Holland. represented the Holy See at the International Ethnological and Anthropological Congress at Copenhagen on August 1-6.
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