Francis Brennan

Francis Cardinal John Joseph Brennan ( born May 7, 1894 in Shenandoah, † July 2, 1968 in Philadelphia ) was a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Life

The son of Irish Catholic married couple James and Margaret Brennan ( nee Connors ) attended the Seminary of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook neighborhood in Pittsburgh. For further study, he went to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical Athenaeum Apollinare and at the Pontifical Roman Seminary. Basilio Cardinal Pompilj ordained him priest on April 3, 1920.

After his return to the United States of pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia was active from 1924 to 1928in and taught at his alma mater, St. Charles Borromeo Seminary. In the years 1937 to 1940 in the administration of the archdiocese worked. As a " brilliant lawyer of canon law " was on 1 August 1940. Auditor of the Roman Rota, and on 14 December 1959 he was promoted to dean

On June 10, 1967, he was appointed Titular Archbishop of Tubunae in Mauretania. The Cardinal Dean Eugène Cardinal Tisserant ordained him on June 25 of the same year the bishop; Co-consecrators were Joseph Carroll McCormick, Bishop of Scranton and Luigi Faveri, Bishop of Tivoli.

On June 26, 1967, Paul VI took. him as a cardinal deacon with the title of S. Eustachio diakonia in the College of Cardinals. He too familiar of the Pope on January 15, 1968 as Prefect of the management of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on.

The cardinal died on July 2, 1968 at the age of 74 of a heart attack in Philadelphia and is buried in the crypt of Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. At the time of his death he had risen to the highest office in the Curia that has ever reached an American until then.