OBITUARY.

Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14521, 17 August 1911, Page 5

OBITUARY.

CARDINAL MOEAN". A SUDDEN SEIZURE. Press Association—By Tel.—Copvright. Received 5 p.m., Aug. 16th. SYDNEY, Aug. IG. Yesternight Cardinal Moran was in the city in connection with Church matters. He returned to Manly and retired as usual, and was not again seen until a personal attendant entered his room at nine this morning and found the Cardinal's body lying across tho bed. He had evidently got out of bed during tho night, and thrown a brown cloak over his shoulders, when from a sudden seizure he fell back dead. On Sunday he opened a new Presbytery at Chatswood, and delivered a vigorous Bpeech. Received 8.30 p.m., Aug. 16th. Cardinal Moran's death was due to heart failure, caused by a sudden and violent attack of diarrhoea. His medical attendant was not informed of of tho illness, as the Cardinal did ,-.ot regard it as serious. The body will lie in state for several days. v His Eminence, Cardinal Moran, third Archbishop of Sydney and first Australian cardinal, was born at Leighlinbndgu. County Carlow, Ireland, on September 16th, 1830. When only twelve years of ago, he accompanied Ins uncle. Cardinal Culleu, then rector of the Irish College, to the Eternal City. Tliero ho remained until 1866 successively a3 student, professor and v ice-Rector of the Irish College. Ho received ordination on March 19th, 1853. During the quarter of a cen- i tury that he resided in Rome, ho made a special study of the archives of the early Irish and British Churches, with the result that ho was acknowledged to be amongst the foremost authorities in the department of antiquarian research. His studies in this direction have borne permanent fruit in no less than twenty publications from his pen. In 1866 he returned to Ireland in tho capacity of private secretary to his uncle. Cardinal Oullen, now promoted to tho archbishopric of Dublin, and afterwards first Irish Cardinal. He also became Professor of Hebrew and Scripture in Clonliffe College, Dublin. In 1872 he was consecrated Bishop of Ossory. where he remained until March 21st, 1884, when he was translated to. the vacant arch-diocese of Sydney. He arrived in Sydney on September Bth of the same year, and was welcomed by a concourse estimated at one hundred thousand people. Next year ho was summoned to Rome, and raised to the cardmulate by Pope Leo XII. on July -"■*"■ He presided at the first plenary conned of the Catholio Church in Australasia, at Sydney in November 1880, at the second in 1895, and at the third m 1905. He also presxkd ?onn A " str , alla n Catholic Congress in lyua. Cardinal Morau was generallv respected in the as an able and energetc primate. Among other works he lias published •• Memoir of the Most Rev. Oliver Plunkett (1861) ■ n-„ i J 8 - One" 1 , etc., of the Early Irish CWh"; " Historv of the FiarT' 0 of Dublin" (1964); and a political work on the rederal Government of Australia He came to New Zealand a'few years ago to open the completed cathedral at Auckland, and on that occasion ho spent a week at Rotoru;, for Ins health, but did not come turtiier south.

Cardinal Moran started the first Catholic Congress in Sydney. He X ? i Wl tlK> Seminary at Manlv which accommodated about 150 students and acquired extensive grounds around the building besides erecting a In 1909 he founded the St. Columbus Missionary-College at Springwood near fbfock' %%??** situated S a block of land one mile square The same year he celebrated lis silver jubilee in Australia, when there wala a great gathering to do him hn„™„Presentations were made by tLe Cathol Catholio Societies all over Australia storedtlf 8 ** , lai ? 41 * Nation costing This £*%s and since then oracticallv eve-v Snn peal m the different parishes in ,vluch t P* leeted about hSeds^of n r Si "? *° b9 »o™ nunareds of convents, schools and petrtive examination called the SZdinal's examination to which is attached numbers of bursaries. A man 1 well as. a priest, he took a close terest m public affairs, moved" iota was not very popular.