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Show RIVAL OF THE POPE ; ROME, Jan. 15. Cardinal Lucldo Mary Parocchi, sub-dean of the sacred college and vice-chancellor of the Catholic, Cath-olic, church, died today of heart disease. dis-ease. He was born In 1833, was of Italian Ital-ian nationality and was created a cardinal car-dinal in 1877. The death of Cardinal Parocchi removes re-moves one of the prelates said to be the most likely to succeed Pope Leo. There was always considerable friotion between be-tween the Pope and Cardinal Parocchi on this account and it led to the unprecedented un-precedented step of the Pontiff in removing re-moving the cardinal from the post of vicar of Rome, but It was thought that he, too, openly posed as the future Pope. Nevertheless the Pope was deeply affected af-fected by Cardinal Parocchi's death. He knelt in prayer and exclaimed: . "These frequent deaths have made me feel quite an old man." - |