Religion: Great Ones, Holy Ones

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.

A few days before the most exalted of these, John Cardinal Bonzano, legate of the Pope to this Congress, had been greeted in princely fraternity by...

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