Text transcribed from caption: SAMUEL ALPHONSUS CARDINAL STRITCH, ARCHBISHOP OF CHICAGO #1350 Created a Cardinal by Pope Pius XII on December 23, 1945, Archbishop Samuel A. Stritch of Chicago is chairman of the Administrative Board of the National Catholic Welfare Conference and also heads the American Bishops’ Committee on the Pope’s Peace Pointes set up in 1941. A native of Nashville, Tennessee, where he was born August 17, 1887, Cardinal Stritch completed his theological studies at the North American College in Rome and was ordained by the late Cardinal Respighi at the age of 23 years. At the age of 34, when he was named Bishop of Toledo, Cardinal Stritch became the youngest member of the American hierarchy. Nine years later, in 1930, he was named Archbishop of Milwaukee, and in 1940 succeeded the late George Cardinal Mundelein as Archbishop of Chicago. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (PA-NY-TFD-12-5-C)