Chicago, Oct. 3. CORGE, Cardinal Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, succumbed, on Sunday night to a heart tack in his sleep, death coming 0 peacefully that members of his entourage were unaware of it until they attempted to awaken him at 7.40 o'clock yesterday morning, after which they were so grieved they did not reveal his death until two hours later.
He died in his 69th year.
Cardinal Mundelein will be remembered as a builder, when ther it was with stone and mortar or the lives of men.
Famed as master builder of magnificent cathedrals, Chicago's first prince of the Roman Catholic church preferred always to relieve the anguish of the despairing and to that end he dedicated his many years as spiritual guide to more than 1,000,000 in the great archdiocese of Chicago. He continued his work as builder in stone. During his administration, more than 600 buildings were erected to house! schools and churches and convents and hospitals, orphanages and rectories, although it was in the hearts of men he achieved most.
'A crowd of $0,000 moved in the procession welcoming him back from Rome as Cardinal in 1924. A million Roman Catholics went from alt parts of the world to Chicago for the frst Internations] Eucharistic Conaress eld in Atoeriea, Almost a million more joined in the public celebration El the closing of his silver jubilee Year in 1694," Such tumultuous ova ion could only be tribute to a great religious leader, George William Mundelein was born. uly 2, 1672 In St, Nicholas parish on New York's East Side, near where hhis friend and schoolmate, Cardinal Hayes of New York, also was born.
"The two young boys who were te walla solemnly together in the Vatican to receive the red hat at the same consistory, oltonded the parish school, then. studied under the Christian Brothers at De LaSalle Institute, "The young scholar's brilliance as a student at. Manhattan College led President Cleveland to offer him an Appointment. to the United Stater Naval Academy. "He refused. A dean which had its beginning years bbetore while he served as an acolyte St. Nicholas church drew him nearer the church. He entered a seminary conducted by the Benedic~ tines at the renowned Archabbey of St, Vincent at Latrobe, Pa "Young and brilliant, his serious purpose attracted the favourable at-mention of Bishop Charles F. MeCon-nell, tinder Bishop MeConnell's in-Muence in Rome, it was arranged for this young scholar, who still was below' the canonical' age for ordina~ tion, to enroll for graduate work in theology at the College of the Proppaanda,
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