Events involving this person
Neville takes his hung-over Catholic nephew to Cardinal Spellman's high mass
Description
His Catholic nephew, visiting New York, got drunk with Neville's son one Saturday night; Neville sobered him with black coffee the next morning and walked him from 55th Street to St. Patrick's, where to the boy's dismay it was a long high mass conducted by Cardinal Spellman, which he could then boast of to his mother.
Persons
Authored by
Anonymous (not verified)
Date (happened)
- before 1900 (doubtful)
- before 2 March 1965 (probable)
Told
c. 1969(refuted)- 2 March 1965 (probable)
Sources
- Source: Tloa Lecturethe Word ΒΆ44 (My little nephew came to New York City many years ago, and my son took him out on the town one night, Saturday night, and they got plastered.)
6 December 1967
Neville remarks on watching television the previous night, where Cardinal Spellman was placed in his crypt and praised as a holy man for bringing hundreds of millions of tax-exempt dollars into the di