THE NEW CARDINALS

New Zealand Tablet, 25 June 1914, Page 47

THE NEW CARDINALS

The Rome correspondent of the Catholic Times, ■writing in the early part of May, gave the following brief biographical sketches of the prelates who were created Cardinals at the Consistory of May 25:

Archbishop Scrafini

First of the five Italian prelates on the list is Archbishop Scrafini, Titular of Scleucia, Assessor of the Supreme Congregation of the Holy Office, who is now in his sixty-second year. When quite a youth the future Cardinal entered the Order of St. Benedict, and in 1874 he made his profession at Subiaco, three years before his ordination to the priesthood. After ho had held several offices in his Order, Leo XIII. appointed him Archbishop of Spoleto in 1900, a position which he filled until 1905, when Bins X. sent him as Apostolic Delegate to Mexico. Archbishop Serafini has been Assessor to the Holy Office since November, 1911,

The Archbishop of Bologna

Mgr. Della Chiesa, Archbishop of Bologna, was born near Genoa in 1854, and ordained priest in 1878, after having completed his studies in the Capranican College and the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics, Rome. In 1883 ho accompanied Mgr. (afterwards Cardinal) Rampolla to Madrid as Auditor of the Papal Nunciature, and with him he returned to Rome in 1887 to serve as subordinate to the great Sicilian on the nomination of tho latter as Secretary of State. Mgr. Della Chiesa remained in the Cardinal's office until 1901, when Leo XIII. promoted him to the post of Substitute to the Papal Secretary of State and Secretary of the Cipher. On his appointment as Archbishop) of Bologna in 1907 the Holy Father honored him by personally consecrating him in the Sistinc Chapel.

Mgr. Giustini

Mgr. Philip Giustini, Secretary of the S. Congregation of the Sacraments, was born in May, 1852, and became Professor of Canon Law in the University of S. Apollinare, Rome, in 1878. He has filled the positions of Secretary to the S. Congregation of Bishops and Regulars, has been Auditor of the Rota., and in 1908 assumed the duties of his present office.

Mgr. Lega.

By the elevation to the Sacred College of Mgr. Michael Lega tho Holy Father has revived a. custom which, had fallen into desuetude since the Italian invasion of 1870. Prior to the fall of Romo Auditors of the Sacred Tribunal of the Rota observed a degree of state little less than that of Cardinals, and their Dean entered the Senate of the Church sooner or later. At the reform of the Curia in 1908 the Holy Father named Mgr. Lega Dean of tho Rota.

Mgr. Tecchi

Fifth of the new Cardinals who are Italian is Mgr. Scipio Tecchi, Assessor to the S. Consistorial Congregation, who, like Archbishop Serafini, is a Roman by birth. Born in 1854, and raised to the priesthood in 1876, owing to the numerous offices he has filled since tho early days of his manhood, Mgr. Tccchi enjoys the reputation of possessing vast knowledge of the machinery of the Church. Since 1908 this prelate has held the Secretaryship of the Sacred College, as well as the Assessorship of the S. Consistorial Congregation.

The Archbishop) of Quebec.

Of the eight foreigners, the senior in point of years is Mgr. Begin, Archbishop of Quebec. Archbishop Begin was born at La Pointc Levis, near Quebec, in 1840, and pursued his ecclesiastical course at Propaganda College, Rome, where he was ordained priest in 1863. From Rome he was transferred to the University of Innsbruck, where he obtained the doctorate of theology. In 1888 came his appointment as Bishop of Chicoutimi, Canada, and in 1891 as Coadjutor to Cardinal Taschereau, Archbishop of Quebec, with the right of succession. Seven years later, on April 12, 1898, he became Archbishop) of this See.

The Archbishop of Munich.

In Dr. Hettinger, Archbishop of Munich, the kingdom of Bavaria receives its first Cardinal since tho formation of the German Empire. The Cardinalelect, who was born in the diocese of Spire in 1850 succeeded to tho archdiocese of Munich and Freisinu in 1909. , b

The Archbishop of Cologne. The Archbishop of Cologne, Dr. von Hartmann, was born at Munster, Westphalia, in December, 1851! For some years after his ordination in 1874 ho served as chaplain of S. Maria dell’ Amnia, "Rome, the German national church. His appointment in October, 1912, to the Archbishopric of ‘the German Rome’ afloi ded particular satisfaction to the Emperor of Germany.

Archbishop Czernoch.

Mgr. Czernoch, who has turned his sixty-second year, succeeded the Benedictine Cardinal Vazsary, Primate of Hungary, in Strigonia in 1912.

Tho Archbishop of Vienna.

he elevation to the Sacred College of Archbishop Piffl, of Vienna, was a foregone conclusion, as the Concordat between the Holy See and Austria provides that the Cardinalitial dignity shall bo conferred upon tho Archbishop of the Austrian capital at the first Consistory held after his election.

The Archbishop of Toledo.

Mgr. Guisasola y Mencndez, Archbishop of Toledo, who was born in 1852, was appointed Bishop of Osma in 1893, and of Madrid in 1901, and Archbishop of Valencia in 1905. In November, 1913, he was transferred to the Metropolitan See of Toledo.

The Archbishop) of 'Lyons.

In the same year as the last-mentioned prelate was born the Archbishop of Lyons, Mgr. Scvin. He succeeded Cardinal Couillie at Lyons in April, 1909.

Abbot Gasouet.

By the elevation to the Sacred College of the Right Rev. Abbot Gasquet, President of the English Benedictines and of the Commission for the Revision of the Vulgate, the Order of St. Benedict obtains a second Cardinal at the Consistory of May 25. His well-merited promotion is highly popular in all circles in Rome. The Abbot’s great work for the Church was the subject of a notice in the columns of the Catholic Times last week. His place of residence in Rome will continue to be in S. Callisto, Trastevere. Of the thirteen Car-dinals-elect, five are Italians, one French, one Canadian, one Spanish, two Austro-Hungarian, one an Englishman, and two Germans.