DEATH OF A CARDINAL
The death of Cardinal Tonti brings the number of tho Sacred College clown to sixty active and two In pectore. Of these sixty thirty-one arc Italian and twenty-nine foreign. His Eminence was raised'to tho purple in 1915. His life had been passed mainly in the diplomnlie sphere, firstly as Auditor of. Nunciature in Paris and Lisbon, then for a Ion? and important spelj of work across tho Atlantic, during wbicli he was instrumental in settling many difficult questions. He v-ns Delegate Apostolic to • Snn Domingo, Haiti, and Venezuela, n!™ Apostolic Administrator nnd Inter Archbishop of Port pu Prince; then Nuncio (o Brazil, nnd •in 10(10 Nuncio to Lisbon. Thence, aftor the devolution uiiide the presence of a Nuncio impossible, ho was recalled lo ■Rome, created Cardinal in 1915, .ami in "1917, on the death of Cardinal Cngiano de Azevedo, nominated Prefect of t' ( ie ,S. Congregation of Religions.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 10
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152DEATH OF A CARDINAL Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 10
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