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Martinelli. The Brief fixed the Society's headquarters permanently in Chicago, Illinois, appointed the Archbishop of Chicago ex officio chan- cellor, and showed such solicitude for the work as to reserve to the Pope himself the quinquennial appointment of the presidency of the Society. Additional commendations came by letter from Rome in 1919. Cardinal Gasparri, Secretary of State, acknowledged on April 12, receipt of a report covering the work of the Society during the twelve years of its existence, which had been submitted by the Right Reverend Monsignor Francis C. Kelley, upon whom had been bestowed the title of Protonotary Apostolic. The Cardinal-Secretary wrote: "The August Pontiff, who derived the greatest pleasure from reading your report and finding in the vivid account a portrayal, graphically arranged and illustrated, of the works which he had already heard were providentially flourishing in your Republic under the auspices of the above-mentioned Society, deigned on the occasion to express in terms of highest praise the sovereign satis- faction he derived from the truly consoling development of the works accomplished in the course of so few years by the aid of Divine Favor. . . . The August Pontiff, desirous of bestowing on your Society a new mark of his personal consideration and esteem, as also of extending formal recognition of the good work of the Society, has been pleased to grant the right, from this date forward, to use in its acts as its distinctive and official emblem the papal insignia, the tiara surmounting the two keys." 38 Government of the Soci.ety. The chancellor, who is the chief admin- istrative officer of the Society, has always been the Archbishop of Chicago by appointment of the Holy See who at present is Samuel Cardinal Stritch. The executive officer, likewise appointed by the Holy See, is the president, who, since 1924 has been Bishop Wm. D. O'Brien. On the occasion of his golden anniversary of his ordination in 1953 Bishop O'Brien was elevated to the dignity of a Titular Archbishop, the Titular See of Calinda. The Vice President and Director of Exte11-siqn J1,/ agasin8 is the Right Reverend Monsignor Joseph B. Lux, D.D. The Right Reverend Monsignor Thomas J. Reed is the Vice-President and General Secretary. To aid the chancellor and the president, a Board of Governors has been established, consisting of members of the hierarchy, priests, and laymen who meet annually in November to review the Society's work 38 The summary herein given is based on the account written by Bishop Francis C. Kelley, T/1e Stor,, of Extensio11, 123-124; and the account by Bishop William D. O'Brien, Cat/Joli& B11ilders of t/J1 Nation, V, 125-128.
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