AARCHBISHOP PURCELL'S DEATH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 21, 14 September 1883, Page 16

AARCHBISHOP PURCELL'S DEATH.

Ax about midnight of July 4th, Archbishop John Baptist Purcell breathed his last. His death came not unexpected. Long illuess, and blows of paralysis, had for many months made his final decease a matter of days. His life ha 9 been so prominently before the public that it were altogether superfluous to rehearse it. Born in Ireland coming early to the United States, and entering on ecclesiastical pursuits, after some early years^at-MtrSt. Mary's, Emmictsburg, he was sent for a time to St. Sulpiee, Paris, for theological studies. • He returned to Mt. St. Mary's; was first a professor, and afterwards President of that Institution. Thence, in 1833, he was named Bishop of Cincinnati. When Cincinnati was made a Metropolitan See, in 1850, Dr. Purcell was named its first Archbishop. For nearly fifty years he has been Bishop. His early and severe labours, as a Missionaiy Bishop, with a titular residence, were appreciated by generations now mostly dead. His years of glory are in the past. They have been followed by what are more wholesome, The cross is the symbol of a Bishop. Archbishop Purcell has had his to bear in his last years. Relieved of the administration of his Diocese, that be had no longer the strength to manage, every tender care and solacement possible have been rendered him by the Coadjutor that the Holy See sent to care for the Diocese, — Bishop Elder,— who now becomes his successor, w.th the title of Archbishop of Cincinnati. Nero York Freeman.