Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Grangemockler, Michael Browne joined the Order of Preachers in Taillight, Dublin, in 1903, and received his education at Rockwell College, Cashel, as well as in Rome, at the Convent of San Clemente, and in Fribourg at the Theological Faculty. Appointed professor of philosophy at the Angelicum in Rome, in 1919, of which he would later become rector and professor of theology, through the years he acquired a reputation as a renowned scholar of both subjects. Master of the Sacred Palace between 1951 and 1955, on April 11 of the latter year he was elected Master General of his Order in 1955, a post which he relinquished in 1962 when Pope John XXIII created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of March 19, with the deaconry of San Paolo alla Regola. On the following April 19, he was consecrated archbishop with the titular see of Idebesso by the named Pontiff at the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica. Becoming somewhat of a champion of the more traditionalist view during the Second Vatican Council, expressing misgivings about absolute freedom of religion, Cardinal Browne died in the Santo Stefano Rotondo hospital on Rome's Caelian Hill, where he had been confined for several months due to an incurable illness. Pope Paul VI visited him there on Ash Wednesday when returning from a procession, after his condition became serious.
Roman Catholic Cardinal. A native of Grangemockler, Michael Browne joined the Order of Preachers in Taillight, Dublin, in 1903, and received his education at Rockwell College, Cashel, as well as in Rome, at the Convent of San Clemente, and in Fribourg at the Theological Faculty. Appointed professor of philosophy at the Angelicum in Rome, in 1919, of which he would later become rector and professor of theology, through the years he acquired a reputation as a renowned scholar of both subjects. Master of the Sacred Palace between 1951 and 1955, on April 11 of the latter year he was elected Master General of his Order in 1955, a post which he relinquished in 1962 when Pope John XXIII created him cardinal deacon in the consistory of March 19, with the deaconry of San Paolo alla Regola. On the following April 19, he was consecrated archbishop with the titular see of Idebesso by the named Pontiff at the Patriarchal Lateran Basilica. Becoming somewhat of a champion of the more traditionalist view during the Second Vatican Council, expressing misgivings about absolute freedom of religion, Cardinal Browne died in the Santo Stefano Rotondo hospital on Rome's Caelian Hill, where he had been confined for several months due to an incurable illness. Pope Paul VI visited him there on Ash Wednesday when returning from a procession, after his condition became serious.
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