Religion: Merry del Val Jubilee

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Then Merry del Val withdrew into the relative obscurity to which he has clung ever since. One dearest labor of these last years has been in the hope of achieving the canonization of simple, faithful, saintly Pius X.

Although Merry del Val is 63 he is still the youngest Cardinal in the Curia. In 1920 he became Cardinal Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church (administrator of the property and revenues of the Holy See). Should the present Pope die, Merry del Val as Cardinal Camerlengo would be in charge during the interim before the new Pope was consecrated.

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