Madrid, Aug. 24.
A somewhat delicate situation has been created for the Spanish Church by the death of Cardinal Isidro Goma y Tomas, Archbishop of Toledo and Primate of Spain.
The passing of the Primate—who played a very important part in the creation of Nationalist Spain,—leaves only two Spanish cardinals alive. And neither, at present, seems in a position to become new Primate.
Mgr. Segura, Archbishop of Sevilla, has already held the dignity of Primate and it would not be easy for him to filt that position again.
The other cardinal is Mgr. Vidal Barraquer, Archbishop of Tarra-Zona, who is considered by the Nationalists to be one of the heads of the defeated separatist Catalan movement and who now resides in Rome, unable fo return to Spain.
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