PRIOR VAUGHAN'S VISIT.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXI, Issue 46, 15 March 1895, Page 15

PRIOR VAUGHAN'S VISIT.

(Sydney Freeman's Journal, March 2. ) The Very Rev Prior Joseph Jerome Vaughan airived in Adelaide on Tuesday (reports the Soiith Australian Register), having been a passenger by the Austral from LondoD, and is ibe guest of Mr Aloysius M'Donald, of the Bank of New South Wales. Prior ' Vaughan hopes, we are informed, that some fitting opportunity may present itself before long of uufolding his scheme " for the amelioration of the masses and the conversion of tbe heathen at Home.'' Such a humanitarian mission, based on the broad lines of Christianity, will commend itself no doubt to the sympathy of a large section of the community. He will remain in Adelaide about

a fortnight and will then go to Melbourne. Tbe Prior expects to remain in Australia for a year. The Advertiser says : — Father Vaugban will address meetings in Adelaide in which he will explain the scheme he has propounded for 'ho amelioration ot the condition of the masses "and the millions who are without a knowledge of God." The Prior was advertised ag one of the speakers Becured for *he L*Hy Vsist«nts' A^soc-iition meeting held in Adelaide on Tuesday last in connection with the early-closing system. The other speakers were the Hon Dr Magarey, M.LC, Mrs Nicholls, and Miss Spence. As Prior Vaughan belongs to a remarkable English Catholic family, the following particular should be of interest. His father, the late Lieutenant-Colonel John Francis Vaughan, of Courtfield, near Ross, Herefordshire, England, had 13 children. Nearly all the members of Colonel Vaughan's large family joined the Church. There were eight sons, and of these no less than six had a vocation for the religious state. Cardioal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, and formerly Bishop of Sal ford, the eldest eon, was the first to enter the Church. The late Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Rev Roger Bede Vaughan, D.D., 0.58., was the second son. Joseph Jerome Vanghan, 0.8. 8. (our present visitor), was till a tew years back Lord Aboot of St Benedict's Fort Augusta Abbey and College — the first Benedictine Abbot created in Scotland by tbe present Pope. The Rev Kenelm Vaughan, who is a secular priest, is travelling in South America, partly on missionary duty, but with the main object of collecting funds for a Church of Expiation of the Blessed Sacrament in London. Father Kei»elm Vaughan has had tbe Bible translated into Spanish — the only translation of modern times — ia order that he may distribute the Holy Book in hundreds among the Catholic people of South America. The fifth brother, Bernard Vaughan, is a Father of the Society of Jesuß, and is recognised as one of tbe most popular and most eloquent in England. Father John S. VaughaD, who is a secular priest, and who, it will be remembered, spent some time in the Archdiocese of bydney,iß now, wa understand, assisting in the parochial work at Manchester, England , The remaining sons are Francis and Regi na'd. Before the fathei's death it had been arranged that the eldest brother should inherit the entailed estates of the family, and since that time Colonel Francis Vaughan has been the squirt of Conrt« field. Francis Vaughan some years ago married Miss Pope, an American lady of wealth Bnd position. Reginald Vaugban visited New South Wa!e3 soon after tba arrival of his illustrious brother \ and having in this city married Mibb Shanahan, sister-in-law of Sir Pa'rick Jennings, he returned to England and has since resided at Glentrothy— an estate bequeathed to him by his father — near Abergavenny, and not far from Courtfield. Mrs Reginald Vaughan died last year. Four daughters of old Colonel Vaughan entered !he religious life. The eldest sister, Gwladys, became one of the Order of Visi ati^n nuns, aid died at Boulogne, Fiance. Another smter, Theresa, who was a Sister of Chanty, died in London ; and Clare, who was one of the Poor Clares, died at Amiens, France. Mary, tne surviving sister, is sub-prioress of the nuns of the Perpetual Adorat on, New Abbot, Devonshire, England. Of the immediate rela ioaa of our visitor, Prior Vaugban, w* o have risen to dignity in the Church may be mentioned three uncles — the Right Rev Dr William VrtughaD, Bishop of Plymouth ; the Very Key Edmund Varjghan, C.SS.Ii., late Superior of the Rederu purists in Australia, and who has just returned to Eogland ; and Father Richard Vaughao, S.J., Professor of Pbysici and Chemistry at St Francis Xavier's, Liverpool ; and also a cousin, the Hon and Right Rev Dr Clifford, late Bishop of Clifton.