Michael

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Browne, O.P. (born David Browne, 6 May 1887 – 31 March 1971) was an Irish priest of the

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and a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Master General of the

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from 1955 to 1962, and was elevated to the

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in 1962.

Early Biography

Michael Browne was born in Grangemockler,

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Formation

Browne joined the Order of Friars Preachers, commonly known as the Dominicans, in 1903. After studying at Rockwell College, the Dominican

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at the Basilica of San Clemente in Rome, and the

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, he was

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to the priesthood on 21 May 1910.

Career

Browne taught at the Dominican

in Tallaght,

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, where he was Master of Novices until 1919 when he was appointed professor at the

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, ''Angelicum'' in Rome. Browne served as

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of the convent of St. Clemente from 1925 to 1930. He was the ''Angelicums rector ''magnificus'' from 1932 to 1941 Browne was appointed

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from 1951 to 1955. He became Master General of the Dominicans on 11 April 1955, remaining in that position until his resignation in 1962. He was created

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of '' San Paolo alla Regola'' by

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in the

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of 19 March 1962, appointed

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of Idebessus on 5 April 1962, and consecrated as bishop on 19 April by John XXIII, with Cardinals

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and Benedetto Aloisi Masella serving as

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, in the Lateran Basilica. Browne attended the

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from 1962 to 1965. A

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, he was opposed to the reforms of the Council (including

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) and was a friend of Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.SSPX, District of Asia
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1998 He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 1963 papal conclave that elected

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. From 20 January 1971 until his death, Browne served as

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. He died in Rome, at age 83, and was buried in the priory cemetery in Tallaght, County Dublin, Ireland.

Family

His brother was Pádraig Monsignor de Brún, a notable priest, poet and scholar, and he was an uncle of

Máire Mhac an tSaoi Máire Mhac an tSaoi (4 April 1922 – 16 October 2021) was an Irish civil service diplomat, writer of Modernist poetry in the Corca Dhuibhne dialect of Munster Irish, a memoirist, and a highly important figure within modern literature in I ...

, scholar, poet, wife of Irish diplomat, writer and politician

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, and daughter of his sister, Margaret Browne and her husband, the Irish revolutionary and statesman

Seán MacEntee Seán Francis MacEntee (; 23 August 1889 – 9 January 1984) was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Tánaiste from 1959 to 1965, Minister for Social Welfare from 1957 to 1961, Minister for Health from 1957 to 1965, Minister for Lo ...

The Big Sycamore

''The Big Sycamore'' (1958) is a fictionalised account of the early life of the future Cardinal Browne and his family, fictionalised as 'the Fitzgeralds' (his mother's maiden name was Kate Fitzgerald). It was written (under the pen-name Joseph Brady) by another of his brothers, Maurice

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Browne (1892-1979), parish priest of Ballymore Eustace, County Kildare, and

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, and the author of plays such as ''Prelude to Victory'' (1950), and novels such as ''In Monavalla'' (1963) 1st alternative

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and ''From a Presbytery Window'' (1971), as well as the afore-mentioned ''The Big Sycamore''.

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