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William Cardinal O’Connell was a man to be reckoned with. His nickname in the archdiocese of Boston that he ruled for 36 years was “Number One”. Born in 1859 to Irish immigrants, the youngest of eleven children, his father, a textile worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, died when William was four. A gifted student, he [...]
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