Bishop Buddy Scrapbook 1946-1948

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO, FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1946

WHEN NEW WOBLD MET THE OLD

Led by Three Cardinals, Thousands Pay Homage to Cardinal Glennon . Dignitaries of Church and State At Requiem Celebrated by Apostolic Delegate-Over 150,000 Passed Bier ST. LOUIS, (NC)-Three of this nation's four Cardinals were present at the Solemn Pontifical Mass of Requiem for 83-year-old John Cardinal Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis which climaxed a three-day period of mourning, seldom if ever equalled in the long annals of this city. • • * The Cathedral of Saint Louis was filled to overflowing when

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Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Ci- cognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, pontificated at the Mass. Besides the Cardinals, who occupied thrones beneath a can- opy of penitential purple, there were scores of Archbishops and Bishops in t Sanctuary, while hundreds of priests and Religious The Most Reverend Bishop re.. turned to San. Diego Monday, deeply impressed by the magnifi- cent tribute paid to the distin• guished Cardinal Archbishop of St. Louis. bY, plane, leaving St. Louis Sunday afternoon and arriving in Kansa s City an hour and 40 minutes later. On Mon.day morning our Most Reverend Bishop offered Holy Mass at the Cathedral of the Im~ maculate Conception in Kansas City at 6:30 a.m., boarded a Con.. stellation, TWA Sky Chief, at 9 a.m., arriving in Burbank at 12:40 p.m. The non-stop flight from Kansas City to Burbank was in a pressurized cabin, because the plane .flew 16,000 feet above sea level-straight across the plains of Kansas, over the Rocky moun• tains, the Grand Canyon .and Boulder Dam at an average speed of 300 miles per hour. A Western Air Lines connec-- tion at Burbank brought His Ex• eellency to San Diego, so that by 3 :30 p.m., he was at his desk in the Chancery office. Ordinarily, this amount of trav. eling would require two days and two nights. His E:,:cellency traveled

In this informal.photo, taken two weeks before his death, the late John Cardinal Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis (left), is shown . <:hatting with Gregory Catdinal Agagianian, Patriarch of Cilida in Armenia. This picture was taken, February 20. a~ the yatican while they were awaiting the ceremonies at which they received the scarlet birettas from PoDe Pius X:U. AP radiophoto. (NC Photos)

OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE DIOCESE OF SAN DIEGO, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1946

BISHOPS' APPEAL FOR THEM

First $5,000 Put to W~rk for Relief of Starving Cliildren. . . e tutions from loss of proper nour- In accordance with the pron_n~ . hment may be destined to en- made by the Most Reverenfd .,~1~0~ :ure m~ch suffering for many op, the first installment o

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contributed the Southern Cross appeal has been sent directly to the Holy Father \ to relieve the sufferings of starv- ing children in war-stricken_coun- tries. Donations are still being re- from Europe that 170 millions of persons are threatened with fa~- ine there and with UNRRA offi- cials reporting like numbers fac- t~e Far East unless food arrives m the immediate future, no huma~ being with even a spark of chari- ty can. stand idly by. . The collection sponsored by u:11s newspaper is for the children, m- nocent little victims who suffer at the present time and, it is feare~, because of theil· weakened const1- in response to I \ ceived. ing death by starvation ~n

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