Consistory of 1924

24 March 1924, a public consistory at which Pope Pius XI bestowed the cardinalitial hats upon two American prelates: George Mundelein, Archbishop of Chicago, and Patrick Hayes, Metropolitan of New York. The ceremony took place in St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, in the apse of the transept. A description of the entire rite of appointing new cardinals is available on our website in the Pontificalis Aula section.