George Mundelein
George William Cardinal Mundelein ( born July 2, 1872 in Manhattan, † October 2, 1939 in Mundelein, Illinois) was Archbishop of Chicago.
Life
His grandfather came from Mundelein Paderborn in Westphalia. He was one of the first martyrs, who died during the American Civil War in the battle for Fort Sumter.
Mundelein graduated from LaSalle Academy and Manhattan College, where he graduated with honors in 1889. He then joined the St. Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pennsylvania and studied at the Pontifical Urban University in Rome, where he was ordained by his diocesan Bishop Charles Edward McDonnell on June 8, 1895, a priest.
After his return to the U.S., he worked in the Diocese of Brooklyn and served until 1897 as secretary to Bishop McDonnell. After that, he was chancellor of the diocese until 1909. On June 30, 1909, Pope Pius X appointed titular bishop of Loryma and auxiliary bishop in Brooklyn. He received his episcopal consecration of the Bishop of Brooklyn, Charles Edward McDonnell, on 21 September of the same year; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Buffalo, Charles Henry Colton and the Bishop of Newark, John Joseph O'Connor. On 9 December 1915 he was appointed the third Archbishop of Chicago, Illinois. In the consistory of 1924 Pope Pius XI created him. cardinal, with the title of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome. Mundelein, the first cardinal was west of the Allegheny Mountains. He participated in the papal election in 1939 partly in Rome and died in the same year at the age of 67 years.
Coat of arms and motto
The coat of arms depicts a star ( Mary - symbol ), field 3 three bees, the emblem of the Italian noble family Barberini taken in box 1, the letters AM ( Ave Maria), Field 2. ( In the Barberini Palace in Rome, the Pontifical University facilities were, at the Mundelein studied ) Field 4 shows a crown and the word Humility ( humbleness as a symbol of the Magnificat ). In this coat of arms, George William Mundelein expresses his attachment to Mary and shows him as a great admirer of Mary.
Behind the shield upright the double cross of the metropolitans, and the miter and crosier. In the Galero ( pupurner cardinal's hat ) with 15 tassels hanging down. Below is the motto: Dominus meus Adjutor.
Work
He was considered a moderate theologian and was a friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also supported the New Deal. He fought for social issues and supported the missionary Edward Galvin in his mission and social work in China. In his pastoral work, he tried to bring together different ethnic groups in joint parishes. His Paper Hanger was speech recognition ( an allusion to the supposedly former profession Hitler ), in which he criticized Adolf Hitler and his followers. In 1921, Mundelein acquired the Sheldon's school in Illinois, which he had converted to a seminar. There is also a women's college was established there, which was a part of the Loyola University in 1991. The location of this school was called off in 1924 after the founder of Mundelein.
His cousin Franz Mundelein (1856-1927) was a church builder in Paderborn.