DRAMATIC SCENES
AT CARDINAL'S DEATH
A WELL-BELOVED PRELATE
THOUSANDS BLESSED DAILY
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Asn Received February 4, •">.."> p.m
Hi IMF-, February 3
The death of Cardinal Ferrari was mr.st dramatic. He was the peasant at Parma who became Archbishop of Milan and was universally beloved When it was noised abroad that he was doomed, due to cancer in the throat, immense crowds besieged the Arcbiepiscopal Palace, clamouring for admission. The dying prelate exclaimed, "I! Ik a grand good-bye. Throw open the doors; let them all come." For a fortnight interminable queues, from the Ivghest in the See to the humblest peasant, passed the deathbed, 5000 to 10.000 receiving a blessing daily.
The Cardinal displayed stoic heroism atd refused narcotics. When cylinders of oxygen were brought in he pencilled a note to the doctors, "These are 16in shells for speeding folk to eternity. Why not let a Christian go peacefully to Paradise as God and .Nature will?''
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Waikato Times, Volume 94, Issue 14584, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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