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Tuesday, March 24, 2009Jaspers Get Red Hats
Today in 1924 marks the day that two members of Manhattan College’s Class of 1889 were elevated to the Sacred College of Cardinals, Archbishops George W. Mundelein of Chicago (1872-1939) and Patrick J. Hayes (1867-1938) of New York. Both were born in Manhattan but studied for different dioceses: Mundelein for Brooklyn and Hayes for New York. Both became Chancellors, Auxiliary Bishops, and first president of their diocese’s preparatory seminary (in both cases they were named Cathedral College). In 1915 Mundelein left Brooklyn for Chicago, where he served for 24 years and built some 600 churches, schools, hospitals, convents and orphnages. In 1919 Hayes became Archbishop of New York, where he made New York Catholic Charities the first in the nation. Mundelein started an international incident in 1937 when he referred to Adolf Hitler as a “cheap paperhanger.” After his death, Hayes had a high school named after him, Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx. Mundelein didn’t get a school, but he did have a college and a town named after him north of Chicago: Mundelein, Illinois.
Posted by Pat McNamara at 5:57 AM
A Queens native, Pat wears several different hats: historian, archivist, professor, author and lecturer. Since 2000 he has been an Archivist for the Brooklyn Diocese. In 2003 he received his doctorate in Church History from Catholic University. He teaches history at St. Francis College, Brooklyn. He has also taught Church History at St. Joseph’s Seminary, Dunwoodie, and at Immaculate Conception, Huntington. He has authored, co-authored and contributed to five books on American Catholic History.
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Dear John,
I was over at the College today for open house for prospective students and their parents
While standing in the Rotunda speaking with Brother Thomas, some one asked about the portraits of the two Cardinals. Brother related that, outside of Italy, Manhattan is the only College that has had two Cardinals named at the same time!
Best,
Mike
[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated. It's hard to find fact like that. MC is unique in so many ways.]
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