LUNKY LEE
SSS«« was born la County WexforS in 1850 a little Irish boy named Hemy William Cleary and this boy was educated for a ■priesthood In the Koman. Catholio Church. On« day Mark Twain met the young priest and loved him for Ms good humour and hia learning. The American wit made a prophecy about Cleary. "He will rise," said the author of Tom Sawyer. "He will be a- bishop some day, then an archbishop, afterwards a cardinal, and finally an archangel.-" It seoniod an extravagant joke, for Cleary was just a young priest who was also a journalist, and was best known as Lunky Leo. But part of the prophecy came true, for Lunky Lee became Bishop of Aiickland. Bishop Cleary was a great fighter for clean living, and cared not if his fellow-crusaders were men of other creeds. It is believed that his death was largely duo to the effects of a motor smash. Ho died at 70, or Mark Twain's prophecy about'the archbishop qnd tho 'cardinal's hat might have been fulfilled. Who knows"?
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20
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177LUNKY LEE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 68, 21 March 1931, Page 20
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