DEATH OF A CHRISTIAN BROTHER.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XVII, Issue 21, 13 September 1889, Page 31

DEATH OF A CHRISTIAN BROTHER.

(From the Sydney Nation.')

Those of our Sydney readers who remember events which took place over forty years ago, will, doubtless, recollect the name of Mr. Carroll, one of the teachers who at that early period was engaged in inculcating the principles of the Catholic faith at St. Benedict's school. Daring his residence in this colony, Brother Carroll was respected and esteemed by all who knew him, and bis kindly disposition formed one of the distinguishing features of his character. Of the many who enjoyed his friendship (as a boy) was Mr. J. G. O'Connor, the editor and proprietor of this journal, And it is not long since the deceased gentleman sent him a carte-de-visitc portrait of himself. While at St. Benedict's he was associated with Brothers Scannell and Larkin ; the last mentioned being still in the flesh, and assiduously following his avocation at the Brother's house in Brisbane. Ihe religious had, when in Sydney resided in Dungate House in C >stlereagh street, the premises being then the property of the late Mrs. M'Blhone. After leaving the colony, Brother Carroll joined the Home of the Christian Brothers in Irishtown, Clonmel, and by earnest application to duty, succeeded in attaining to the position of Superior of the order, which office he occupied until the Bth of July, when on his way to the lailway station, en route to Carrick-on-Suir to attend the month's memory of the late lamented Very Rev. Dr. Fitzgerald, V.G., of that town, he was seen to stagger, then sit down on the footpath, and finally to lie down on his back. He was Been immediately afterwards by a Mrs. Quirke, outqw whose house he lay, who procured a pillow, which she placed und& his head. Mr. F. P. Tydd, solicitor, happened at the time to be passing, and seeing Brother Carroll in an apparently dying Btate, at once ran off to the Catholic Presbytery, and acquainted the clergy there of what he had witnessed. The Rev. Thomas Moran, CO , hastened at once upon a car to where he lay, but on his arrival found that he was dead. Dr. Crean was quickly on the spot, and pronounced life extinct. The Rev. Father Moran had a covered car procured, in which the body of the deceased gentleman was con-

veyed to the residence of the Christian Brothers, Irishtown. A solemn High Mass and Requiem Office for the dead was celebrated in the parish church on the following day, after which the funeral procession was formed. First walked abreast the boys attending the Christian Brothers' schools in the two parishes of St. Mary's and SB. Peter and Paul's numbering about 400, followed by the members of the deceased's order from Waterford, Thurles, Tipperary, Tullamore, Carrick-on-Suir, and Clonmel. The funeral was largely attended by a great number of citizens, including many who differed from him in religious conviction. The deceased was interred in the Christian Brothers' cemetery attached to S3. Peter and Paul's school and convent, The funeral service was conduoted by the Very Rev. J. Phelan, assisted by the other priests of the district. Brother Carroll was born near Drogheda, and belonged to a most respected family. Ha was 76 years of age at the time of his decease, and was 55 years in the Order of the Brothers. May his soul rest in peace.