Bishop
He was consecrated as Titular Bishop of Tipasa, in Mauritania, and as Auxiliary Bishop of Cotonou in 1957 by Cardinal Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant, to whose then post of Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals he would one day succeed.
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“Think of the storm roaming the sky uneasily
like a dog looking for a place to sleep in,
listen to it growling.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“On the middle of that quiet floor
sits a fleet of small black ships,
square-rigged, sails furled, motionless,
their spars like burned matchsticks.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)
“The waiting room
was full of grown-up people,
arctics and overcoats,
lamps and magazines.”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)