 At services there the previous Sunday, investigators found that in a collection envelope she had placed a note registering her objection to the arrangement on the altar.A coworker said that she had been acting strangely all week and had said she was going to "do some good work" at church that day.In 1920 Mayor John Francis Hylan and Governor Al Smith were among the 100,000 Catholics who signed a petition to the new pope, Benedict XV, to designate St. Jean Baptiste a basilica.