PEASANT TO CARDINAL.
HOy CARDINAL FERRARI DIED. “PEACEFULLY TO PARADISE.” By Telegraph —Press Assn —Copyright. Received Feb. 4, 5.5 p.m. Rome, Feb. 3. The death of Cardinal Ferrari was most dramatic. He was a peasant at Parma, who became Archbishop of Milan, and he was Universally beloved. When it was noised abroad that he was doomed, due to cancer in the throat, immense crowds besieged the arch- , episcopal palace, clamoring for admission. The dying prelate exclaimed: “It is a grand good-bye; throw open the doors and let them all come.” For a fortnight interminable queues, from the highest in the See to the humblest peaisatft, passed the deathbed, five to ten I thousand receiving a blessing daily. I The cardinal displayed stoic heroism and refused narcotics. When cylinders of oxygen were brought in he pencilled a note to the doctors: “These are six-teen-inch shells for speeding folk to eternity; why not let a Christian go peacefully to paradise, as God and Nature will?” —Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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168PEASANT TO CARDINAL. Taranaki Daily News, 5 February 1921, Page 5
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