Father Vaughan in South America.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 22, 29 May 1902, Page 6

Father Vaughan in South America.

The Catholic journals of South America contain interesting accounts of the questing tour along the eastern shores of South America of the Very Rev Keni-lm Vaughan, who is collecting funds for the Spanish chapel in the new Westminster Cathedral. At Lima, Peru (writes a correspondent of the Pilot), the glowing charity of its citizens contributed in December £1,000, while an enthusiastic reception has been accorded to tbe good priest in Bolivia The reception that was vouchsafed to him in the Argentina and Chile was a^o cordial, so that whtn Mexico is reached the good and noble priest will be looking forward to a speedy close of his five years' tour in behalf of the Spanish Chapel. Th( s? who have contnbuttd will never regret it, for whenever any ocasion arises they will be convinced that Father Vaugban has a lone memory for little km.lntsncs. He f-eems always in debt in his affections and prayers for bin contributor-, keeping anniversaries Of them, and frequently repaying them twenty tini'js over. The ///.>// (dth-)lic sE.y« of Father Vaughan and bis mission : 'The Ve>y Rev. Kenelm Vaughan, brother of the Cardinal Archbishop of WeKimiiisTtr, has for tu^ last three years been colliotin* funds for the Spanish Chapel of the new Cathedral of this M tro" politan See among the republics of Pouth America, but lately in one of the richest, as it truly is one of tho most Catholic republics of the once vast Spanish c >lo.iial Empire — fc'q iatorial Peru. Hi* hosts of friend* and admirers of his zeal in hr gland, throughout sunny Spain, and not a few in old Ireland, will be de'i^btcd to bear that the unequalled success that crowned his efforts over the pastoral expanses of Argentina is not abandoning him along the snow-crowned slopes of the Andes. 'The President of the Republic of Peru and the Archbishop of Lima give magnifictnt contributions, while n long h~t ot generous offerings from the eminent and opnlmi citizens < f the n-j of .^t. Rone, beautiful Lima, is sufficient to fiil tue hta't of this noble. self -sacrificing apostle of ( harity. this tr i y ge-orl. d«;vntt-d pne-r, with the bright hopf that tbe goiden pro-p < tr> and results with which hiH mission was naugurat.d and close i in trie South still pursues r i- fo .tsteps, and lhatat the tern ina'ion of his l.ibo'R here in the North will see realised that princely sum needed to coin; lete the gem among the chapels that will enrich, dtcorate and embelhbh England's peerless new basilic*.'