CARDINAL MORAN.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1208, 17 August 1911, Page 5

CARDINAL MORAN.

SUDDEN DEATH AT MANLY. By Telccraoh—Press •Association-CoD.vrieht (Rec. August IC, 8.30 p.m.) Sydney, August 16. The (loath is announced of his Eminanc© Cnrdinal Moran, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, aged 81. Yesterday evening the Cardinal was in tho city in conneclion with church matters, and subsequently returned to tho palace at Manly. He retired n-s usual, and was not again seen until his personal attendant entered his room at nino o'clock iu the morning, and found the body lying across tho bed.

The Cardinal hud evidently got out of bed during tho night, and had thrown | o oloak over his shoulder?, when he was attacked by » sudden seizure, and fell back and died. Only last Sunday he opened the new presbytery at Chatswood, and delivered a vigorous speech. The cause of death was heart failure. As tho Cardinal did not regard the illless as serious, his medical attendant was not informed. The body will lie in state for several days. THE LATE CARDINAL'S CAREER. His work in Australia.. His late Eminence Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney, and first Australian Cardinal, was born at Loighlinbridge, County Carlow, Ireland, oil September 16, 1830. When only twelve years of age he accompanied to Koine his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, then rector of tho Irish College in the city of the Seven Hills. During a stay of twenty-five years in Rome, the late Cardinal was in turn student, professor, and vice-rector of tho Irish College. Ho also made ah exhaustive study of the archives of the early Irish and British churches, and was recognised to bo an unsurpassed authority upon that subject. His antiquarian researches resulted in over twenty publications from his pen. In 18GG he returned to Ireland as private secretary to liis uncle, Cardinal Cullen, who had Been made Archdeacon of Dublin. He also became Professor of Hebrow and Scripture in ClonJiffe College, Dublin. InlBV2 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory, where he remained until March 2T, 1(581, when he'was translated to the vacant archdiocese of Sydney. On his arrival' in the New South Wales capital in September, ho was welcomed by a concourse of ono hundred thousand people. Next year he was called to Rome, and made a Cardinal by Popo Leo XIII, on July 27. Ho presided at the first Plenary Council of the Catholic Church in Australasia, which was attended by seventeen prelates, in November, 1885. Tho late Cardinal was generally recognised as an nble and energetic primate.' His published works include: "Memoir of the Most' Rev. Oliver [ Plunkett" (1861), "Essays on the Origin of 'the Early Irish Church"; "History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin'' (1564); "Historical Sketch of tho Persecutions under Cromwell and tho l'nritnns" (ISGS); "Acta S. Brendani" '(1872); "Spicilegium Ossorieuse, being a collection of documents to illustrate tho History of the Irish Church from the Reformation to tho y*ar 1800" (1870); a volumo of poems entitled "Fragmentary Thoughts," a political -work on "The Fedoral Government of Australasia"; "Letters on the Anglican Reformation" (1830); "History Of tho Catholic Church in Australasia" (1894); "The Reunion of Christendom and Its Critics" (18%); "Tho Mission Field in thn Nineteenth Century" (1900); and "The Priests and People of Ireland" (1905). i Tho Cardinal.accomplished'a great deal tor his Church. Twenty-eight Roman Catholic institutions of charity date from his arrival. Ho was the founder of St. Patrick's Ecclesiastical College, at Man;.lv, and this is, regarded by his people as 'hTs' I, groat£sf.'' , work. The Cardinal; • without any appeal to tho Roman Catholic conimunity, paid for tho erection and furnishing of St. Patrick's, which, it is said, could not have cost him. less than .£BO,OOO. •

Great personal influence was exercked by tho Cardinal over his community. If lie contemplated any big Church work he had only to ask and the appeal was readily responded to. Some time ago he undertook to raise £100,000 for the comjjleiion of St. Mary's Cathedral. A rough estimate shows that nearly ,£IO,OOO is already in hand towards the project. In fifteen years he spent £100,000 in making tho Cathedral what it is to-<lay. The completed structure will represent an expenditure of over £200,000. Cardinal Moran was a conspicuous figure at all tho public functions during the centenary celebrations of 1888. And he organised a great Roman Catholic function in connection with the event. It took the form of a public meeting in St. Marv's, at which Lord Carriugton, then Governor of New' South Wales, attended and spoke. Five other colonial Governors were also present on the occasion.' Ono of the Cardinal's pleasantest recollections was the Catholic Congress of 1000. On that occasion Earl Beauchamp, a Protestant Governor, and his staff, together with tho Chief Justice, the Premier, ami other leading citizens, attended High Mass in St. Mary's Cathedral. During the Congress also the Governor entertained the Cardinal, his visiting prelates, the delegates, and local members of the Congress at Government House. This wa.s considered by Roman Catholics •as a remarkable recognition of the dignity, power, and influence of their Church. Ten years previously the Cardinal was conspicuous in the reception of two deputations from the maritime strikers, when ho used his influence to try to bring about a settlement. Ho again figured prominently -in the Federal movement, his most notable effort being a big speech at the People's Federal Convention in •p,-'-i,, I rd-. Onn of the last occasions upon Trhich the Cardinal was prominently Ivforn tho Ecueral public ' was during the visit of the American fleet. He was a guest at the State . banquet, and himself gave a big banquet in honour of the visitors. In the early part of-1008 his Eminence paid a visit to New Zealand.