The Irish standard., 1914-06-06
SKETCHES OF NEW CARDINALS

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The following is the list of the
new cardinals: Mgr. Louis Nazire
Begin. Archbishop of Quebec, Can
ada; Mgr. Vittor Guisasola y
Menendez, Archbishop of Toledo,
Spain; Mgr. Domenico Serafini,
Archbishop of Seleucia. Italy. Asses
sor of the Sacred Congregation of
the Holy Office: Mgr. Giacomo della
Chfesa. Archbishop of Bologna, Italy;
Mgr. Johann Csernoch. Archbishop
of Esztergom. Hungary; Mgr. Hec-
tor Irenee SEWN, Archbishop of Ly-
ons. France; Mgr. Franz Won Bettin-
ger. Archb ishop of Munich and
Freisingen. Bavaria; Mgr. Felix
Won Hartmann, Archbishop Of Co.
logne. Germany; Mgr. Gustav Pifd,
Archbishop Of Vienna, Austria: Mgr.
Filippo Giustini, Secretary Of the
Sacred Congregation of the sacra-
ments; Mr.. Michele Lega, Dean of the
Tribunal of the Sacred Rota; Mgr.
Scipione Techi, Assessor of the Sac
red Consistorial Congregation;
Right Rev. Abbott Francis Aidan
Gasquet, President of the English
Benedictines.
Biography of the Cardinals.
Archbishop Begin of Quebec.
Mgr. Begin. Archbishop of Quebec.
is the dean by age of the new Car
dinals, having been born on January
10. 1910. at La-Pointe-Levis, in the
diocese over which he now rules.
The second Canadian Cardinal is
a Roman student of Propaganda and
was ordained the Lateran Basilica in
1868; he made postgraduate
course and took his doctorate of the
ology at the University of Innspruck;
he was appointed Professor of Laval
University in 1868, and 20 years lat
er was raised to the Episcopate as
Bishop of Chicoutimi. In 1891 he
was appointed coadjutor with right
of succession to Cardinal Taschereau
in 1898 became Archbishop of Que
bee.
Mgr. CzernOch.
In December, 1912, Mgr. Czernoch
was appointed Prince-Archbishop of
Gran, the Primatial See of Hungary,
in succession to Cardinal Vaszary,
who resigned owing to old age and
infirmity and who is now at the age
of 80 the third oldest Cardinal. The
Primate was born on June 10, 1852,
at Szakolza, in the diocese of Gran,
and ordained prist on November
Is, 1874. While parish-prest and
canon of Gran he was elected as
Deputy of the Hungarian Parlia-
ment. In 1908 he was appointed
Bishop of Czanad and remained Their
until his elevation to the Primatial
See.
Mgr. Won Bettinger.
Franz Won Bettinger was born at
Landstuhl in the diocese of Spfre, on
September II, 1850, and ordained
priest on August II, 1873. From
then until 1909, when he was made
Archbishop of Munich, he was en-
gagged in pastoral work as curate and
parish priest. and greatly endeared
himself to the working classes by his
interest in their organization. He
will be the first Cardinal Archb bishop
of Munich since the constitution of
the German empire.
Mgr. Piff.
Cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of
Vienna. is Canon Regular of the
Lateran, and the first member for a
long time of that ancient order to en-
ter the Sacred College. He was born
in Landskron in the diocese of
Koniggratz, on October Is, 1864, and
is the youngest of the new Cardinals
the youngest member of the Sac
red college with the exception of
Cardinal Merry del Val. May Q,
1913. he succeeded the late Cardinal
Nagl in the See of Vienna.
Mgr. Lega.
Mgr. Lega, Appollinare Professor
of Canon Law and famous for his
canonical writings, was put at the
head of the new body of auditors
of the Rota. He was born at Brisig-
hela on January i, 1860, ordained
priest in September. 1888; he be-
came auditor of the Congregation of
the Council in 1894 and under-secre-
tary in 1903. His elevation to the
Sacred College revives the old Rom
an custom, fallen somewhat into
allegiance after 1870. which pre-
scribed that the dean of the Rota
doffed his ermine only to put on the