"After many years of splendid service González, in Dec., 1889, resigned all his offices and dignities, except that of the cardinalate, and retired from active life. The remaining five years of his life were spent in study and prayer."
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Charles Jerome Callan, Zeferino González (1913) Catholic Encyclopedia
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