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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XI, Issue 47, 21 March 1884, Page 3

The peculiar circumstances attending the death of Key. P Daniel, O. S. 8., of St. Benedict's Industrial School, Skidaway Island, near Savannah-Ga., make his .case very note-woithy This kind pnest on the evening of the 7th ulfr, was attacked by a dog, which he attempted to repel with the breech of a gun, in order to avoid shooting anyone. In the confusion, the guv that he held was discharged, the contents entering his abdomen. He died, as he deS Ju' °£ * • advent of the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. Bather Daniel knew at once it was a mortal wound, his first expression to the physician who attended him beiog that he must die, and praying that it might be the Divine will for him to enter the heavenly kingdom on this great feast. He endured his thirty hours of agony with Christian heroism, pustained by a firm faith in God, and fortinedwith the sacraments. Dining bis sufferings he wore a continued smile of peace, and joincil in all the pi avers fora departing soul, being rational to the end. Those not of his faith who witnessed his end exclaimed : •• That priest lived to die 1 " Truly the Benedictine Fathers, in their zeal for the salvation of jthe- coloured race, in eight years have suffered much. They have lost two priests, one Father Birgier by yellow fever, now Father Daniel by accident ;they have suffered from climate fever, enduring privations by self-denial, and Cod has blessed them in the unparalleled bucccss of bringine the ignorant to admit and embrace the Truth,