George William Mundelein

MUNDELEIN, GEORGE WILLIAM American cardinal, was born in New York city on July 2, 1872. He received his education at Manhattan college and St. Vincent seminary, Beatty, Pa., subsequently proceeding to Rome and studying theology at the Urban College of the Propaganda in that city. He was ordained priest on June 8, 1895, at Rome, and be came secretary to Bishop McDonnell of Brooklyn, N.Y., and pas tor of the Lithuanian Church, being made chancellor of the diocese in 1897. He was appointed auxiliary bishop of Brooklyn, with the titular see of Loryma, on Sept. 21, 1909. He became archbishop of Chicago on November 3o, 1915, and was created a cardinal by Pope Pius XI. on March 24, 1924. He was a prominent figure at the Eucharistic Congress held in Chicago in June, 1926. He died Oct. 2, 1939 at his home adjoining the Seminary of St. Mary's of the Lake, founded by him at Mundelein, Ill., a town near Chicago

named in his honour.

MtJNDEN,

a town of Germany, in the Prussian province of Hanover, situated at the confluence of the Fulda and the Werra, 21 m. N.E. of Cassel by rail. Pop. (1933) 12,806. Miinden, often called "Hannoversch-Miinden" (i.e., Hanoverian Miinden), to distinguish it from Prussian Minden, was founded by the land graves of Thuringia, and passed in 1247, when it received munici pal rights, to the house of Brunswick. A few ruins of its former walls still survive. The churches include that of St. Blasius (I4th i5th centuries) and the 13th-century Church of St. Aegidius. The town hall (1619), and the ducal castle, built about 157o, and rebuilt in 1898, are the principal secular buildings. The manufac tures include rubber, leather, and lead piping with trade in timber.