THE LATE CARDINAL MORAN.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 5, 22 August 1911, Page 3

THE LATE CARDINAL MORAN.

His Eminence,'. Cardinal Patrick' Francis Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney and first Australian Cardinal, w hose- death was recorded the other day, was horn at Leighlinbridge, county Carlow, Ireland, on September Kith, 1880. When only twelve years of age lie accompanied to Rome Ids uncle, Cardinal Cullen, then Rector of the Irish College in the Eternal City. There ho remained till 1806, successively as student, professor, and Vice-Rector of the Irish. College.’ He received ordination on March 19th, 1808. During the quarter of a century that he resided in Rome, lie made a special study of the archives of the early Irish and British churches, with the result that he was generally acknowledged'to lie amongst the fore most living authorities in the department of antiquarian research. His studies in this direction have borne permanent fruit in no fewer than twenty publications from his pen. In 1866 he returned to Ireland in the capacity of private’ secretary to his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, afterwards promoted to the Archbishopric of Dublin. Ho also became Professor of Hebrew and Scripture in Clonlilfe College, Dublin. In 1872 ho was consecrated Bishop of Ossory, where he remained until March 21st, 188-1, when he was transferred to the vacant archdiocese of Sydney. He arrived in Sydney on September Bth of the same year, and was welcomed by a concourse estimated at 100,600 people. Next year he was summoned to Rome, and raised to the cardinalate by Pope Leo Nil I. on .July 27th. He presided at the first plenary council of the Catholic Church iu Australasia, which was attended by seventeen prelates. It assembled' in Sydney in November, 1885. Cardinal Moran was generally inspected in tbo colonies as an able and 'energetic primate. Among or.ncr works he lias published “Memior of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett” (1301) ; “Essays on tbo Origin, etc., of the Early Irish Church”; “History of the Catholic Archbishoprics of Dublin” (1861); “Historical Sketch of the Persecutions, etc., under Cromwell and the Puritans” (1865) ; “Acta S. Brcndani” (1872); “Mouasticon Mibcrniciqn” (1878); “Spicilegium Ossorionsc, being a collection of documents to illustrate history of the Irish Chun h from the Reformation to the year 1800” (1879); a volume of poems entitled. “Fragmentary Thoughts” ; also r. political work on “The Federal Cnvoinmciit of’ AustrVdasia,” and • “Letters on the Anglican. Reformation” (1890).

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