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Oe et meee ey er J The Bishop likes chocolete ice cream and angel-tock cake. _. ‘also itkes ‘to roam about the kitchen in the homes of friends when . ie ‘Tikes to play ‘dennis and always drégsed the pert, with | White scarf and white flannel trousers, and vas @ fashion plate oa the court ¢yen though hie game was not always | f 5 # ” Bishop Sheen attended a dinner for a group of wen one evening and during the evening he was asked if he had received all that he wished for Christmas, The Bishop said, no; and when one of the wen asked hin what it was that he wanted, he said, some royal blue colored silk pajamas, The next day, he received 20 pairs of royel blue ‘silk pajamas. Each man ~ . attending the dinner had gone home that evening and told his wife about the Bishop's statement, and asked her to have royal blue siik-pajamas sent to hia, h man thinking he would be the nly one sending then. Lev wnt For yess » be drove a light creaw-colored ecsvertivie and he usually wore a camel hair coat, white scarf and dark glasses while driving, to avoid being recognized. Occasionally, he drove ata rate of speei higher than the speed limit, and it was necessary for him to use the full power of | his oratory to talk his way out of a ticket when an enterprising wotorcycle cop: was about to give one to hin. + 2B AMT SED SETAE R PENT 5 6 ERs SY RE ers During the New York World's Fair in the 1930s, Bishop Sheen re- fused to spesk or wake an appearance with a ousber of otber. iclergymen be- cause of the fact that the Russian Exhibit had a giant figure of a man holding aloft a red star, representing the Red Star of Russia, and it was _highte: than any Awerican flag on the World's Feir grounds... His rebuke to the World's Fair people over this question forced them to extend one of the flag poles on the grounds so that the American flag was bigher than the Red Star of Russia. It was only then that the Bishop, who was then a Mon- signor, agreed to talk at the World's Fair. ....... : } a In June, 1951, Bishop Sheen was consécrated a Bishop at Rome, and it wis the first consecration in a century at Rome of an American Priest who had not lived or been a seminarian in that city. His nephew, Fulton J. Sheen III, who was a student at Louvain University, where the Bistop also studied, was one of the guests at the consecration. Immediately after becoming @ Bishop in Rome, Bishop Sheen left his own group for a private audience with the Pope, who presented him with a Pectoral Cross. Almost dumedietely there- after, the Bishop flew to the Grotto of Our Blessed Mother at Lourdes, e spot