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Encyclical. The great New York Times published the full text of the encyclical letter of His Holiness, Pius XI, announcing to his "venerable brothers" the celebration of the hepta-centenary of the death of St. Francis of Assisi, who talked with birds, who received upon his body the stigmata of the Wounds of Christ. The reigning pontiff: . . . Since our immediate predecessor has assigned this saint, who was sent by Divine Providence for the reformation not only of the turbulent age in which he lived, but ot Christian society of all times, to Catholic organizations engaged in social activities as their...
Into Chicago glided a remarkable train, seven cars flaming in cardinal, each bearing a name revered by Roman Catholics-Pius XI, Cardinal Bonzano, Cardinal Hayes, Bishop Quarter (first bishop of Chicago), Pére Marquette (French Jesuit missionary and explorer), St. Mary of the Lake Seminary. . . . It was a special train bearing great ones, holy ones of their Church from Manhattan to Chicago for the XXVIII Eucharistic Congress...
...notes; the Pope notes-and one day His Holiness welcomes the quiet worker into an order of Roman Catholic knighthood, symbol of his Church's esteem. Two U. S. men last week were so knighted-Banker James J. Phelan of Boston as Knight Commander of the Order of Pius IX,- and retired Industrialist Cornelius Gallagher of Manhattan as Knight of St. Gregory...
...Superintendent of State Police, at Albany. Notables attending the wedding included: George Brennan (Democratic boss of Illinois), George W. Olvany (leader of Tammany), Owen D. Young, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Damrosch, Efrem Zimbalist, Assistant Secretary of the Navy T. Douglas Robinson. Through the "Papal Secretary of State, Pope Pius XI cabled his apostolic benediction for the couple. In all, 1,500 people crowded into the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and the mass said by Patrick Cardinal Hayes lasted an hour and a half, in the presence of two and a half truck loads of flowers. A wedding breakfast...
...Florist. The gatherer of this spiritual bouquet to Pope Pius XI and so to the Catholic Church which is the Bride of Christ, is His Eminence, George William Cardinal Mundelein...