SPENT IT IN CHARITY

New Zealand Tablet, 26 November 1914, Page 43

SPENT IT IN CHARITY

Although he inherited 50,000 dollars from his father, one of the ' iron manufacturers in New York some years ago, and on the' twentyfifth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthood in 1901 his parishioners made him a personal gift ,of a rectory valued at 35,000 dollars, the recently filed will of the late Right Rev. Monsignor Matthew A. Taylor, rector of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament,shows that all his personal and real estate amounted to only 1500 dollars. Many. Catholics were surprised to learn of the smallness of the estate. On the other , hand, those who were intimately acquainted with Monsignor Taylor were surprised to learn that he left even that amount, in view of the fact that he devoted all his spare time and means to charity. The fortune which he received from his father he spent to help the poor. He did not confine his assistance to people of his own faith, but he helped those of almost every faith. The rectory he received 4 on his silver anniversary he immediately turned over to the Church. After his death it was discovered he was paying the rent of and ' assisting in other ways over fifty poor families.