,2THE PROGRESS Fr;clay, June 21, 1963
These Cardinals Are Among 80 At Conclave
here are 82 members in the College of Cardinals
entitled to vote for a Pope to succeed Pope John
XXIII. However, only 80 were expected at the con-
clave which opened Wednesday, June 19.
The two cardinals not attending were Cardinal
Mindszenty, who has been in the United States
legation in Budapest since the Hungarian revolt was
suppressed in 1956, and Cardinal De La Torre, 66, of
Quite, Ecuador, who is ill.
The cardinals and their, aids locked themselves
in the carefully-sealed area of the Apostolic Palace
,which they will not leave un.ti! allew Pontiff is
chosen.
Members of the Sacred College who are pictured
have been promtnent in Church affairs, some of them
for many years. A number have taken an active part
in the recent ecumenical council, All probably will
figure in the "favorite son" aspect of the election if
there is such in a papal conclave.
CARDINAL AGAGIANIAN
REGORIO Cardinal
Agagianian is a man
with many missions. As"
prefect of the Sacred Congrega-
tion for the Propagation of the
Faith, he is responsible for
some 750 mission jurisdictions
in the world totaling more than
40 million Catholics.
An accomplished linguist, the
Armenian prelate has visited
the United States several times,
C a n a d a, Ireland, Indonesia,
Burma, C e y I o n, Australia,
Japan, Korea, Thailand, the
Philippines, Hong Kong, For-
mosa and Kenya.
Cardinal Agagianian was born
September 18, 1895 at Athalt-
sikhe, a small village in the
province of Tiflis in Georgia,
near the Turkish border. He
was christened Lazarus.
CARDINAL ANTONIUTTI
olding posts in China,
Portugal, Albania,
Canada and Spai,n, Ilde-
brando Cardinal Antoniutti is a
64-year-old Italian prelate who
has served in the Holy See's
diplomatic corps from 1927 to
1962.
Since being named by Pope
John XXIII as a cardinal in
February, 1962, he has been a
member of the Vatican admin-
istrative staff, serving on four
congregations.
A tall, thin prelate, with a
command of several languages
including English, the Cardinal
has a reputation for gentle-
ness, brilliance and adminis-
trative ability.
The prelate was born at
Nimis in the northeastern It-
alian province of Udine, August
3, 1898.
CARDINAL CASTALDO
A RESTLESS builder
of churches and
schools, Alfonso Cardinal
Castaldo, Archbishop of Naples,
is determined to have the
Church help raise living con-
ditions in Italy's depressed
south.
In !934, when he was named
a bishop, he chose to dramatize
his intention by putting on his
coat of arms an illustration of
the sea in motion, an image
clearly understood by Neopoli-
tans who know the constant
pounding of the sea against the
shore.
"He shall neither sleep nor
rest," proclaims the motto.
Born in Casoria November 6,
1890. Alfonso Castaldo's par-
ents were Aniello and lVlarianna
Crispino Castaldo.
A VETERAN Italian
diplomat, Amleto
Cardinal Cicognani helped
the Church in the United States
meet the demands of its period
of greatest growth and then
jerved Pope John as his closest
collaborator.
Cardinal Cicognani was chosen
in 196! by the Pope as his See.
retary of State and the almost
b r o t h e r I y relationship that
sprang up between the Pontiff
and his "other self" was vividly
dramatized at Pops John's
death.
The future Secretary of State
was born February 24, 1683, in
Brisighella, Italy, the son of
Guglielmo and Ann (Ceroni)
Cicognani. His older brother--
late Gaetano Cardinal Cicogn-
ant was Prefect of the Sacred
Congregation of Rites.
CARDINAL CICOGNANI
RUSTED associate of
popes since before he
was 30, Carlo Cardinal
Confalonieri knows the work-
ings of the Church from every
angle.
Under Pope John XXIII, who
named him a cardinal Decem-
ber 15, 1958, six weeks after
his own coronation, no other
cardinal save Amleto Cardinal
Cicognani, the Secretary of
State, served on more of the
governing congregations and
commissions of the Holy See.
And as with Cardinal Cicog-
n a n i, Cardinal Confalonieri's
case adhered to the old law
of management -- a job well
done begets not a vacation,
but more work.
CARDINAL
CONFALONIERI
ELIGHTED at the
"real live Indians in
the American Southwest,
Giuseppe Cardinal Ferretto is
a scholar who has lived all of
his 64 years virtually in the
shadow of St. Peter's.
Although the youngest of the
Cardinals of Rome, he out-
ranks most of them. This is be-
cause he is one of the six
members of the order of cardi-
nal bishops.
Cardinal Ferretto was born
in Rome March 9, 1899. He was
ordained in the Lateran arch-
basilica February 24, 1923, by
Basilio Cardinal Pompili, Pope
Pius XI's Vicar General for
Rome.
Pope Plus entrusted him
with the work of editing his
apostolic constitution "Exsul
Familia" which dealt especially
with religious assistance to
migrants.
CARDINAL FERRETTO
FREM Cardinal Forni
joined the Vatican's
administrative s t a f f in
1962 after spending nearly 41
years in the diplomatic serv-
ice, most of them in Ecuador.
A native of Milan, Italy, he
spent the first eight years of
his" priestly career as a semi-
nary teacher, then entered the
H o 1 y See's diplomatic corps
and served in addition, to
Ecuador, in Portugal France
and Belgium.
He was named to the Sac-
red College of Cardinals by
Pope John XXIII February
19, 1962. He went to Rome
and became a member of
three congregations: Consist-
orial, Council and Extraordi-
nary Eccesiastical Affairs.
Cardinal Forni was born in
Milan, January 10, 1889.
CARDINAL FORNI
CARDINAL KOENI@
DATED as, one of the
: :l Churchs greatest
canon lawyers of modem
:imes, Francesco Cardinal R0-
berti officiates in the Vatican's
hih: sit s court.
' Prefect of the Sacred
Tribunal of the Apostolic Signa-
ture. This court has jurisdiction
over certain matters arising
.from the Sacred Roman Rote,
decides jurisdictions a m o n g
lower tribunals, deals with legal
7:, matters pertaining to Vatican
:.iCity and handles some concor-
;!: dat, , .
? Cardinal Roberfi has devoted
41 half-century of his life to the
:?$tudy, teaching and practice of
: canon law.
: He was born July 7, 1889 in
:Pergola, an Italian town about
40 miles south of the Republic
of San Marine.
:/:(.-: : CARDINAL TUTA
.;;:Im, has been a figure
i: ::.: closely identified with ec,
!iclestastical Rome and Catho-
:!llc prolects undertaken in the
E Eternal City since 1936,
:; The principal ordaining Bish-
:': op of Rome for nearly 25 years,
! ,tlie Cardinal estimates that he
has ordained more than 2,500
-4 . , e
"iprlests, including hundr ds of
:,iprests from the United States.
:.' From 1936 until he was
"'!named to the Sacred College
.i of Cardinalsin 1960, he served
::: U Vicegerent :of Rome, assist-
::!:: lag 'ihite administatlon of the
"i:, diocese: -
.ii:: Born April 3, 1695, in AI-
! o' near Rome, he was or-
.: dained for the D i o e e s • of
:':!.Rome, August 10, 1917. He wal
Tene of seven churchmen to be
?'. elevated March 28, 1960.
A B t b 1 i c a 1 scholar, !::: : ii:i:i:iii:i!il
teacher, author and ':': ::: .......... ::::'
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a linguist wi.th a com-
mand of Asian and most
European languages, the career i"
of Franziskus Cardinal Koenig
has been marked by his special
interest in the problems of
workers and youth.
Son of a devout Catholic
farm family, the Archbishop
of Vienna has won wide pop- ::::ii:iii,.
ularity. • : 'I
Cardinal Koenig was born in
Rabenstein in Lower Austria
August 3, 1905. He was ordain-
ed in Rome October 27, 1933.
During the war, he taught
religion at the Sankt Poelten
high school, headed the dio-
cesan youth organization, and
was chaplain of University of
Vienna students and prisoners
of war. CARDINAL LERCARO
A NOTED pastor and
administrator, H i s
Eminence Ernesto Car-
dinal Ruffini, Archbishop of
Palermo since December, 1945,
nevertheless is probably best
known as a scholar and teach-
er of biblical and scriptural
science.
From 1913 to 1930 he served
as a professor in two Roman
universities, where he became
the teacher and friend of many
American prelates and priests.
He served as Prefect of the
Sacred Congregation of Semi-
naries and Universities during
which time he was the author
of a constitution reforming
Catholic higher education.
Cardinal Ruffini was born
January 19, 1888, in the vil-
lage of San Benedetto Po,
near Mantua in the Po Val-
CARDINAL ROBERTI Icy region of northern Italy.
A VETERAN Vatican
diplomat, Gustavo
Cardinal Testa was named
in 1962 to head the Sacred,Con-
gregation for the 0 r i e n t a I
Church, a post in which' he. has
made extensive use of first hand
knowledge of e a s t e r n rites
ga!ned in the Middle East. As
a Latin Rite prelate, he directs
a congregation which handles
all matters pertaining to the
persons, discipline and distinc-
tive rites of Eastern Catholi-
cism.
Gustavo Testa was born in
Boltiere in the Diocese of Ber-
gamo, July 18, 1886, the young-
eat of four children. He was
ordained October 28, 1910.
Cardinal Testa was named
prefect of the Oriental Church
congregation August 2, 1962.
CARDINAL TRAGLIA
CARDINAL TISSERANT
he first episcopal ap-
pointment of Pope
J o h n XXIII November
11, 1958, was the transfer of
Archbishop Giovanni Urbani
from the Diocese of Verone to
the Patriarchate of Venice. Six
days later the new Patriarch
was named a cardinal.
For Cardinal Urbani his
appointment as Patriarch of
Venice was a homecoming. He
was born in Venice March 26,
1900. "In September 1922, he
was ordained by Pietro Car-
dinal La Fontaine, then patri-
arch of Venice.
He set forth a moral code
to guide persons working in
the film medium, and urged
Catholics to work for Euro-
pean unity, saying that they
are called "to become con-
scious and active citizens
of this Europe."
CHOLAR, teacher, lit-
urgist, former mili-
tary chaplain, skilled or-
ganizer, helper of the wartime
anti-Fascist underground and
implacable foe of Communism,
His Eminence Giacomo Cardi-
nal Lercaro, Archbishop of
Bologna, is perhaps best known
for going out to his people.
He is known as a man of
proverbial c h a r i t y who has
turned the best quarters of his
residence in Bologna into dor-
mitories, study halls and rec-
reation rooms ,to provide a
home for orphmi boys.
His personal' r e I i e f office,
manned by volunteers, is al-
ways open.
Born at Quinto al Mare, in
the Archdiocese of Genoa, Oc-
tober 28, 1891, the Cardinal
was ordained July 23, 1914.
CARDINAL RUFFINI
"n exemplary priest,
• • a savant among the
elite!"
This tribute was paid Eugen
Cardinal Tisserant in 1932 by
Pope Plus XI when the then
Monsignor was celebrating his
25th jubilee as a priest.
Cardinal Tisserant visited
the United States in 1927 and
1933, and returned in 1950 as
the guest of the Society of St.
Edmund of which he is the
protector.
Born March 24, 1884 in Nacy,
France, where he was ordained
August 4, 1907, he has devoted
almost his entire life to the
study of Oriental culture. But
he combined scholarship with
a profound grasp of contemp-
orary social problems.
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CARDINAL URBANI
CARDINAL MARELLA
HE "Soup Bishop" and
"l'Americano" are two
of the titles won by Gui-
seppe Cardinal Siri in a career
marked by heavy responsibili-
ties and high honors at unusual-
ly early ages.
A priest at 22, theology pro-
fessor at 24, and bishop at 37,
he was only 46 when he was
created a cardinal in January,
1953, and became the then
youngest member of the Sacred
College. He was ordained in
September, 1928.
Cardinal Siri, Archbishop of
Genoa, was born May 20, 190,
in Genoa. The son of working
class parents, he decided at an
early age to study for the priest-
hood and entered the seminary
in his native city in 1916 when
he was I0.
pAOLO Cardinal Mar-
/ella Prefect of the
Sacred Congregation of
the Basilica of St. Peter, is a
68-year-old Roman who has
spent 35 years in the Church's
diplomatic service as a member
of the central administrative
staff at the Vatican.
In 1948, he was appointed
Apostolic Delegate to Australia,
New Zealand and Oceania, mak-
ing him the Pope's personal
representative to the Church
spread over thousands of miles
of the South Pacific.
His diplomatic career .was
capped in 1953 when he was
called back to Europe and
named Apostolic Nuncio to
France.
During the war, the Arch-
bishop helped many foreign in-
ternees.
CARDINAL SIRI
CARDINAL MONTINI
eo Cardinal Suenens,
known to the outside
world mainly by his writ-
ings, has served recently as
an interpreter in public of the
encyclical Pacem in Terris.
The Archbishop of Maline-
Brussels and Primate of Bel-
gium represented the late Pope
John XXIII in May, 1963, at
the annual meeting in New
York of the U.S. Committee
for the United Nations. His
purpose was to outline and ex-
plain to the committee, com-
posed of 135 national organiza-
tions, the peace encyclical of
John XXIII.
Born in Ixelles, a suburb of
Brussels, July 16, 1904, he was
ordained September 4, 1927, in
Brussels. He served as vice
rector of the Catholic Univer-
sity of Louvain during the diffi-
cult war years.
IOVANNI Cardinal
Montini, a veteran
of some 30 years' service
in the Vatican Secretariat oft
State, has made his voice heard
!
in behalf of the Church on many
fronts since his appointment
as head of the Milan archdiocese
in 1954.
Cardinal Montini has achieved
wide recognition for his unre-
lenting battle against Commu-
nism. This has, to some extent,
put in the shadow his activity
as a builder of churches, his out-
standing Work in b eh a I fofl
Italian Catholic Action, his ef-
forts toward the attainment of
Christian unity.
A native of Concesio, located
on the outskirts of Brescia,
Cardinal Montini was born Sep-
tember 26, 1897. He was or-
dained May 29, 1920.
CARDINAL SUENENS
Balloting For New ,Pope In Progress
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of this hall, facing St. Peter's
Square, the new Pope will
give his first public bless-
ing.
Always associated wi t h a
conclave is the stove that sends
out the' signal of a decisive
vote, the white smoke accom-
panying the burning of ballots.
It will have some help this
time in sending up black
smoke after an unsuccessful
balloting. A plastic substance
is ready, along with the tra-
ditional straw, to insure a rich
black smoke when the votes
are inconclusive. At the last
conclave a ballots-p 1 u s-straw
fire sent up a signal• that was
widely misinterpreted.
Another precaution taken out
of the experience of the 1958
voting is the new safeguard for
the stovepipe. It has been
wrapped in asbestos to elimi-
nate any danger from over-
heating.
Next to the stove is a set
of fire irons painted silver and
a silver-painted bin of three
compartments -- two of which
hold straw and he third old
copies of L'Osservatore Re-
mane, Vatican City daily news-
paper. A third receptacle
stands by empty, probably for
the chemicals to make incon-
clusive ballots give off smoke
that is unmistakably black.
Canopies in Purple
The canopies above the 82
chairs for the cardinals are in
deep purple, as are the wall
hangings behind the chairs and
U.S. Cardinals Attending Papal Conclave
THE FIVE U.S. Cardinals are shown in Vatican City before the opening, June 19, of
the 79th Conclave to elect a new pope, the successor to the late Pope John XXIII.
Left to right: Their Eminences Albert Cardinal Meyer, Archbishop of Chicago; Richard
Cardinal Cushing, Archbishop of Boston; Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New
York; Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis; and James Francis Cardinal Mo
Intyre, Archbishop of Los Angeles. (NC Photos)
the coverings of the desks that
stand before each chair.
Fifteen overhead lights have
been installed for the conclave.
In the cardinals' dining
room, armor is piled up in
the corners and between the
tall, small-p a n e d windows.
Busts of Popes Alexander
VII and Leo XIII watch the
cardinals at their meals.
'1930 Modern'
In many of the rooms, me-
dieval chests that would prob-
ably fetch a fancy price on
Italy's active antique market
are side by side with cheap
veneer wardrobes of a style
best described as "1930 mod-
ern."
A room that is comfortable
by conclave standards was re.
served for Jozsef Cardinal
Mindszenty, Primate of Hun-
gary, even though it was
known that he would not be
able to take part in the elec-
tion of the new pope.
