February 3, 1907

The second Roman Catholic bishop of Little Rock, Edward Mary Fitzgerald, celebrated his fortieth anniversary as bishop in Hot Springs (Garland County), eighteen days before he died. While he was bishop in Arkansas, he was one of only two bishops in the world—and the only English-speaking one—to vote against papal infallibility at the First Vatican Council.

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