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Show Cardinal Mundelein Dies in Rural Home Heart Attack Unexpectedly Claims Archbishop of Chicago; Had Been in Normal Health CHICAGO, Oct. (AP) George Cardinal Mundelein, the Catholic church's first cardinal of the west, died unexpectedly today to-day at the ace of 67 in his country residence at suburbsn Mundelein. The Most Rev. Bernard J. Shell, senior auxiliary bishop, Issued the following statement: "His Eminence, George Cardinal Mundelein, archbishop of Chicago, died this morning in his home at St. Mary of the Lake seminary, Mundelein. III. "He was found desd In bed by his secretary, the Very Rev. Mon-signor Mon-signor Patrick J. Hayes, at 7:45 a. m. His personal physician. Dr. L. D. Moorhead, states the death occurred approximately at 7:30 a. m. "The condition was diagnosed as coronsry thrombosis. "The cardinal had been in good health and had spent a normal day Sunday." Close friend of President Roose velt and outspoken crlllc of Adolf Hitler, Cardinal Mundelein was best known for his piety and his greet building program, which msde the Chicago archdiocese one of the largest and wealthiest In the world. A chancery office spokesmsn said Monsignor Pstrick Hayes, seeking to learn why Cardinal Mundelein did not appear for his customary devotions this morning, found his eminence dead In his cpom. Immediately his death was msde known, the telephone lines at the chancery office and Mundelein seminary were flooded with calls from the faithful. Expressions of sorrow came from leaders of all faiths throughout the nation. One of the best known of the Catholic clergy In the United States, Cardinal ' Mundelein was CoatltM on Pft TSfotl I Ooluma Two Cardinal Mundelein Dies in Rural Home (Continued From Page Oim) mentioned as a papal candidate on the death of Pope Plus XI this year. The cardinal attracted worldwide world-wide attention In 1937 when he referred re-ferred to Adolf Hitler, In a public address, as "an Austrian paper-hanger paper-hanger and a poor one at that" He was a close friend of President Presi-dent Roosevelt, whom he visited in the White House on several occasions. oc-casions. The president on a tour of the nation In 1936, was a guest of the cardinal at a luncheon In the prelate's Chicago residence. Under Cardinal Mundelein's tenure, the first Eucharistic congress con-gress of the Catholic church ever brought to the United States was held in Chicago In 1926. More than a million of the faithful from every nation in the world participated partici-pated in the services. Outstanding members of the hierarchy hi-erarchy came here In 1934 to attend at-tend ceremonies conducted In celebration cele-bration of Cardinal Mundelein's twenty-fifth episcopal anniversary. , Architectural Monument Probably the most Impressive of all monuments he left behind Is the huge St Mary's of the Lake Theological seminary In suburban Mundelein. It was built at an estimated cost of $13,000,000, yet of the broth when the schema was discovered, and he was not 111. Anyway, Any-way, he remarked, he was "too hardy to poison." A long search for Crones was futile. So far flung a program did Archbishop Arch-bishop Mundelein undertake that It remained for him as cardinal only to push It forward. Among his many ventures for the church In education, the establishment ol St. Mary of the Lake seminary and university was notable. In the field of benevolence he formed the Associated Catholic Charities of Chicago, coordinating relief activities ac-tivities in the diocese. He launched the "big brother" movement to guide errant boys. He promoted uniform instruction on Catholic doctrine throughout the churches under his domain. To his high station he came from the Bowery district of New York, where he was born on July 2, 1872. The same section of the city produced pro-duced Al Smith and Gene Tunney, the pugilist Ha was one of nine children of an early Immigrant family and his maternal grandfather grand-father was said to have been the first union soldier killed at Fort Sumter In the Civil war. Famed as Builder Cardinal Mundelein's career was cast almost entirely along adminle- the cardinal one remarked, "I would rather save the life of a child than build the greatest cathedral ca-thedral In the world." By Associated Press A round-faced boy of German lineage who preferred serving on the alur to playing neighborhood games, George William Mundelein left his New York home in early youth to obey the Savior's admonition: admoni-tion: "Go ye and teach all nations." na-tions." His course led from the parochial parochi-al school of his boyhood to the first cardinalaU of the Roman Catholic church created west of the Alleghenies, In which he served from Chicago a territory regarded scarcely two decades before was a missionary region. For nine years Mundelein was archbishop of Chicago, and he developed de-veloped the spiritual, charitable, civic and educational work of the church at such a pace that the Holy Se. viewed his labors with increasing favor. For several years the red hat had been forecast for him when he was summoned to Rome in March, 1924, to receive it Cardinal Mundelein returned to Chicago from abroad to meet a welcome from tens of thousands of persons and In a score of tongues. Fifty thousand persons marched In the procession which escorted the city's first prince of the Catholic church through streeU lined by a million specU-tors. specU-tors. The mayor of Chicago knelt to kiss the ring Pop. Pius XI had bestowed. From the midst of all this pomp cam. the cardinal's message, urging urg-ing the United SUtes to Uke iU place as leader of the nations Jn gentlemanly conduct and brotherly love. Peisea Plate At a banquet In 1924 honoring Cardinal Mundelein was perpetrated perpetrat-ed a poison plot which shocked the nation. Hundreds of civic leaders and Catholic laity, gathered about tha Ubles of a downtown club, were stricken with Illness. Poison was found in the soup, and th plot was traced to Jean Crones, anarchist chef. Several of those who partook died. The cardinal had not eaten much trative lines. , Before he came to Chicago he had won attention In the east as a builder of magnificent cathedrals. To that task he brought an unusual un-usual knowledge of architecture. But when he was greeted as archbishop of Chicago, he said: "I had rather lift up the poor and despairing de-spairing to a better, happier life than rear the greatest cathedral In the world," and in the years that followed he showed that executive capacity could be directed di-rected as fruitfully along those lines as toward the rearing of great churches. - Graduate at 17 from Manhattan college, the youngest student ever to receiv. a bachelor's degree then, he enterd St Vincent's seminary semi-nary at Beatty, Pa, and then pursued pur-sued his priestly studies in Rome. He was the youngest member of the hierarchy in the United SUtes when h. was named titular bishop of Loryma and auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn in 1909. Educational and chariUble organization work kept him constantly before the fathers of the church and when Archbishop James Edward Qulg-ley Qulg-ley of Chicago died in 1913 the Brooklyn bishop was chosen to succMd him. The first effort of the mw Chicago archbishop was the building of a new preparatory prepara-tory seminary. Interest Shown In S. L Diocese George Cardinal Mundelein had taken particular interest in the Salt Lake Catholic diocese, although al-though he had never visited Salt Lake City, said the Most Rev. Duane C. Hunt D. D, bishop of the diocese. "Cardinal Mundelein was very close to our diocese and was keenly keen-ly interested in the members in the intermounUin west ssstrtsd Bishop Hunt "He was a personal per-sonal friend of mine and sent a represenUtiv. of my consecration." consecra-tion." . Bishop Hunt said if the funeral Is held as late aa Friday he will be able to attend, because other matters ar taking him east this I week. |