Death of Cardinal Vaughan

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXX, Issue XXVI, 27 June 1903, Page 1805

Death of Cardinal Vaughan

LONDON, June 21. After a lengthy illness His Eminence Cardinal Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, has passed away at Archbishop’s House, Westminster, in the seventy-first year of his age. His Eminence Herbert, Cardinal Vaughan, D.D., late Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford, and latterly Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, was the eldest son of the late Lieut.-Colonel Vaughan of Courtfield, Herefordshire, was born at Gloucester, April 15, 1832, and received his education at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, on the Continent, and in Rome, where lie entered the Accademia del nobili. Ecclesiastic!. He was ordained a priest at Lucca, October 28, 1854, and, returning to England, joined the Oblates of St. Charles, a congregation of secular priests founded at Bayswater by the late Cardinal Manning. From the Oblates he was sent to St. Edmund’s College, near Ware, of which he was Vice-President until 1862. He went in 1863 to America in order to gather funds for founding a Missionary College. In 1869, he founded, and was th** President-General of, St. Joseph’s Foreign Missionary College, Mill Hill, Middlesex, and towards the close of the year 1871 accompanied to Maryland the first Getachnieiit of priests who were sent from Liat institution on a special mission to the coloured

population of the United States. On the death of Bishop Turner he was elected Bishop of Salford, and consecrated in his cathedral by the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, October 28. 1872. At Salfoui he published a series of pastoral letters, and has since identified himself prominently with the crusade against intern pc* a nee, with rescue work among children, and the cause of commercial education, in the interests or which he built St. Bede’s College. On March 29, 1892, he was elected by the Pope, and <m the recommendation of the Propaganda, to the See of Westminster, left vacant by the death of Cardinal Manning. On May 12 he took possession of his Sec and received the pallium on August 16. He was summoned to Rome in January, 1893, to be created a Cardinal, and was received with great distinction during his stay. Cardinal Vaughan, who has acquired a considerable reputation as a preacher. has published several pamphlets, and is the proprietor of the “Tablet” newspaper and of the “Dublin Review.” A speech of his. In which he dwelt upon the validity of Anglican orders, led to a long controversy In the “Times” and other papers during the autumn of 1894. His publications included a large number of pamphlets and letters concerning educational. social, and religious questions.