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| Cardinal Montini (Later Paul VI P.P.) |
“The clashes within the conclave, according to
Cardinal Testa, were intese. Cardinal Ottaviani fought to the end against
Montini, pressing for the election of Cardinal Ildebrando Antoniutti, a
sixty-four-year- old prelate from Friuli, who had considerable diplomatic
experience, and who would have represented an interruption of the “Johannine”
course. The stories that leaked out of the conclave tell also of Cardinal Siri’s
refusal to make himself available for possible election, thus shifting the
votes in his own favor toward the archbishop of Milan: “For the good of the
Church, I did not want to oppose Montini,” the archbishop of Genoa confided to
Benny Lai."
+JMJ+
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