The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-11
CARDINAL MERGER CREATED IN 1907
 BY CONSISTORY
Belgian Prelate Now Visit. ing This Country Defsd Germans When They
 Invaded His Land.

New York, scpa -Rv1eium'e beloved spiritual prince eunrri1a 5% the welfare or 2.5oo.o0H Roman Catholics ,u Che Hulc hlueGam whose urst Herae resistance =r7yrd Che Ger man avalanche. Cardinal Desidorafus Norclcr was born on EovpmEer Z-. 1851. l0 Erai1a t''Uoud 1 Village only feu .i'n. from r.-uuur Water loO.
 Typical of tho horolsm Of King AL bcrts voGrtrymous thls phEslcallv frau but Intellectually powerful pre- late uf tRo church H@rre3 the whole world to adm 7tiou ut his courage when, on che ur-s war Christmas. in 1914, wg-h Germans everywhere in Belgium, ha issued his famous Pas tora3 letsvr. dcHouueiufs the Invader and urgin~ his people Co resist In these worlds
 "Gcrmaay has violated her oath, We can neither number our dead nor compute Che measure uf our ruins, Occupied provinces are mos conquered provinces, The authority of the iu- vader is no lawful authority. There fore, in soul and in conscience you owe jt neither respect, attachment nor obedieuco,'
 Later, ip protesting aeainst tho de- portation of tho BclEtaus for forced labor, he threatened Germany with ''the reproduction of tho civilized world, the judgment of history and the chastisement of God"
 Fifteen thousand copies of the Cardinals letter were seized and de- Stroye6, the printer WIS arrested and fined and tho brave priest was kept n prisoner in his palace by order of General von Kissing 'untI a retrac- ton Of tho pastoral had bton SSned-" The Cardinal not only refused 10 re- tract his Statements but became even more defiant.
 He vras g1ven his liberty, finally, and continued t0 use his voice and pen against the ~'u1a1lod fst' in crys- ral7fziar world opinion against the Central Powers All durinc the war, however, he was subjected to petty persecutions and his secretary and other aides were thrown into jail He went through the bomhardmonts Of Antwerp and Naines and braFed the perfs of the common soldier
 Cardinal Niercie~ was created and proclaimed q member of the Sacred College on April E, 1907, Before that he was professor iu the University of
 
 ared and desecrated in the war. The rr,eJate'z disznteuished service for Bel afun Throughout the war has been tola In frequent news dispatches Less Is publicly known of his early record as a churchnan-
 The Cardinal studicd at St Rom bouts College. NTalires. and the dio- cesan seminary in thc sano place He vras ordained to the priesthood April A. 1924 entered rhr seminary at Ma 1snrz Tn 1877 rs a professor of phil osoDhv after rak kiur a course in theo- 70-v nj inc University of Louyaln and five -ra-s later was called to the uni- vc~sst~ as professor of Thomtstic or liberal philosophy In 1886 Pope Leo NH appointed him domestic prela1c- with the title of NIonsisnor
 He comes Of a diztinEuished re- nglous family other members oi which have won honors in thc church. One unc1o. the Rt Rev Adrian Cruourt. born in ISIS. was 2 nioneer missionary among the Indians for thirty-ei-ht years in the Canadian -Co-4hzvpEt He died in Belgium ir 1902 and ft i~ tF1c Cardinals wish tc visit 1ne scene of his uncle's labors-
 Cardinal AIercier's visit to the Unit ed States fs largely the result of i'm por-tunities from a1l sections or inc country AS President Wilson is ah- sent from Washington inc CardIna -v-i11 nay his first respects to Cardlna Gibbons in Baltimore and visit tn White House later fn his four Ac c,ordf-lsy to present plans the note; Belg1ar pre1a1c's itinuraTy VIII in. c1udr, besides the cities mentioned Philadelphia. Pittsburgh Scranton