PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 11 October 1917, Page 33

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Brother Anselm Lewis, who died lately at the Colombo General Hospital, at the age of 75, or of 78, as one authority has it, was a son of the former Prime Minister Karawatta, of Burma, and ranked with a Burmese prince. He was of Portuguese extraction, and from Burma joined St. Benedict's College, Colombo, as a teacher. Later, he joined St. Joseph's Novitiate of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, Mulwal, Colombo. "Guy Thorn is the pen-name of the author of When It Was Dork, and a dozen other novels. His real name is Cyril Ranger Gull, eldest son of the Rev. J. E. Gull, rector of Rushall. Mr. Gull is an Oxford graduate,' and lives in the Island of Guernsey. His conversion to the Church adds still another eminent novelist to the long list of Rome's recruits from the ranks of men of letters. :■ The Rev. Edmund Frederick Nugent, "M*.A., was , recently received into the Church by the Bishop of Arras in France. He received Anglican Orders in 1890, and was formerly curate of Finningham, Suffolk, England, domestic chaplain to the Bishop of Truro, and Vicar of Padstow, Cornwall. In 1903 he was appointed Vicar of St. Martin's, Brighton, but resigned in 1914 to undertake work for the British Red Cross in France. The Rev. Frederic Holding Lane, lately Vicar of Whatton, Notts. England, has been received into the Church by Monsignor Cocks, at the Church of Our Lady of Ransom, Eastbourne. Mr. Lane was formerly curate at St. Peter the Great, Chichester, Vicar of North Rode.. Chester, Vicar of Barham-with-Stowe, and curate of St. Stephen's, Gloucester road, Kensington. He became Vicar of Whatton-in-the-Vale in 1909. V Bishop Combaz, of Nagasaki, feels justly proud of a new conversion in his diocese. "The great event of the year for this congregation," he says, "was the baptism of Mr. Ono, professor of higher mathematics in the upper lyceum of the city, and the former coiraborator of Father Raguet in editing the Japanese, Dictionary. His family has long been Catholic, but . he/ although persuaded of the truth of our holy religion, was putting off until later the reception of Baptism'! confining himself to a regular attendance at Mass. On feast days, at the request of Father Cavaignae, he used to entertain the Christians by his agreeable talks, full of ingeniously deduced instruction. Moreover, he loved to explain to them the Gospel, which was his favorite book. Thus he presented the anomaly of a pagan who instructed Christians in the way of salvation and who did not follow it himself, like a signpost, perpetually fixed by the wayside. Finally, grace 'overcame his resistance, and Father Raguet baptised him under the name of Paul, He will be a pillar to the little congregation at Kagoshima." ._-* , ; The Municipal Council of Lowell has unanimously voted to name the new parkway, facing the local City Hall, after Cardinal O'Connell. In presenting the order, Commissioner Morse said:—"l believe that the adoption.of this order is but a fitting tribute and recognition to a son of Lowell who has risen by his own perseverance and wonderful ability to one of the highest positions of honor that can be conferred upon any man. I want to see this recognition bestowed upon Cardinal O'Connell because he is a Lowell boy and because he is proud of his native city and proud to proclaim our city?as his home. Lowell can justly claim sons who have brought honor and distinction to their native - city by their brilliant achievements along different lines; of human endeavor. But no one has brought greater honor and recognition to our city by his individual accomplishments than Cardinal O'Connell. Regardless of race or creed, the people of Lowell? are proud of him and the great honors justly accorded him." ' ". ■ .■-'.; Dr. Thomas Addis Emmet, the eminent physician and Irish historian, has recently been, the recipient of the degree : of Doctor of Letters from the Catholic Uni-

versity of America. The degree was conferred personally by the President of the University, the Right Rev. Bishop Thomas J. Shahan, who went to New York from Washington to add another honor to the many that have already been bestowed upon the venerable litterateur. Although Dr. Emmet is entering his ninetieth year, he still spends liours each day in his literary work, and can read without the aid of glasses. His mind is as clear and as active as it was years ago, when he was one of the world's, greatest physicians. The conferring of the degree was in the privacy ; of Dr. Emmet's home, in the presence of his relatives and most intimate friends. Telegrams of. congratulation were received from Cardinal Farley, Cardinal Gibbons, and Cardinal O'Connell. Dr. Thomas Addis' Emmet was born in Virginia on May 29, 1828. He is a grandson of the famous Thomas Addis Emmet,, who was a : brother of the illustrious Robert Emmet; the V Irish patriot and martyr. He received his, preparatory education at a school connected with the "University of Virginia, and graduated from Jefferson Medical College in 1849. Since 1859 he has been prominent as a! .gynaecologist. He is a member of several medical societies of New York, and he has: been President' of. the New York. Obstetrical Society. He is also a prominent member of a large number of European and American medical associations. Dr. Emmet : has attained great fame as a surgeon, and there-is" no American practitioner of medicine better known to the members of his profession connected with large European universities. He has publishedv nearly thirty treatises' on subjects connected with his speciality, and all are remarkable for originality of thought. In s book form he has published many volumes. Dr. Emmet was received into the Catholic Church in 1867, i and he has since been an ardent Catholic. ' His wife, who was Katherine Duncan; of Montgomery, Ala., and her family were always Catholics. On December 20, 1906, Dr. Emmet received from. the hands of Archbishop Corrigan the insignia of. the Knight ; Commanders of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, conferred on him by Pope Pius X. In 1899 he had received the Laetare Medal from Notre Dame University,." and in 1882 the degree of LL.D. from his alma mater, Jefferson Medical College. ;.".:..';■,.• 1 ,,,/- ; \;: ■'•-; J^^v-r^v^V;-