PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 6 November 1919, Page 33

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

,J|• The consecration of the Most Rev. Dr. O’Dolferty as : Bishop ’of Clonfert, took place at Loughrea, Co. Galwayon September 14. ■ The Most) Rev. Dr. Gilmartin; Archbishop of Tuara, and other members of the episcopacy attended! The Rev. ? Dr. Beecher, v M.A., Maynooth, preached the consecration sermon P'' . . - 5 Lieut.-Colonel the Right Hon. Sir A. Hime, K.C.M.G.j formerly Prime Minister of Natal, died recently at, Lymbrock, ? Marlow, Bucks, at the age of 77 years. Deceased was born at Kilcool, Co. Wicklow, and entered the Royal Engineers in 1861 captain in 1874 and major in 1881. He , was a member of the Natal Government from 1897 to? ;19()3. ' • - , ■ . ....: ;

. There Avas rejoicing at the recent meeting ,of the alumni of ; St- Patrick’s College, Manly, Sydney, when it Avas |aoun ced that Chaplain-Major T. J. King, who was in Charge of the chaplains attached to the A.1.F., had '-been promoted to the distinguished position of Monsignor by his Holiness the Pope. The Right Rev. Mgr. King is afr ? ex-student of St. Patrick’s College, and was ordained at St. Mary’s Cathedral in October, 1905. After spending ~ some years at St. Benedict’s, Sydney, ho enlisted with tho Australian forces about four years ago, and, by ’devotion to duty and self-sacrificing labors, won love , and affection on all sides.

The .Hon. John Lane Mullins paid a tribute to Rev. Father J. O’Gorman’s : many good qualities at a recent gathering held in his honor in Sydney. He was foremost as a priest, and as a citizen ho had taken an active part in philanthropic and benevolent movements, for the benefit of the hole community, not alone in Sydney, hut in other parts of, Australia. The speaker referred to Father O’Gorman’s fruitful labors in the parishes of Pyrmont, St. Canice’s, Darlinghurst, and in the Cathedral parish, where for so many years he carried out the responsibilities of Administrator. In each of those places he had had most .excellent predecessors in the persons of the present Bishop of Lismore (Dr. Carroll), Right Rev. Mgr. O’Haran, and Very Rev. Father J. Whyte (Chancellor of the archdiocese). He had also had associated with him at St. Mary’s Cathedral, Rev. Fathers M. Sherin and McGuire. There was no priest better equipped, or more able to carry out the. highest responsibilities than Father O’Gorman. He had taken an active and prominent part in all thatconcerned the welfare of the citizens of Sydney. There had been no movements intended to promote the best interests of the citizens of a benevolent or philanthropic kind in which Father O’Gorman had not worthily represented the Archbishop. He had a special capacity for organising, as was demonstrated by two great recent eventi.

The Right Rev. Dr. Fritzon, of Strasburg, recently named Titular Bishop of Mocissus, died on September 9, at , the Monastery of All Saints, Strasbnrg (says the London Catholic, Times). He was about to resign owing to the political changes that have taken place in the diocese, but he fulfilled his duties as Bishop of Strasburg up ’to his last illness. He was born at Cleves on August 10, 1838, and studied theology, philosophy, and history at Bonn, Tubingen, and Berlin. Ho was court chaplain in -Dresden for 13 years, and tutor to the son of Prince George, later King of Saxony. In 1890 ho travelled in the East with Prince Augustus of Saxony. He was. appointed Bishop of Strasburg in 1891, and since then lie has occupied the See. During the war his position was difficult, but he was at all times faithful to the demands of his exalted office. Bishop Ruch, of Nancy, has been nominated as his successor by the Holy Sec. The death is recorded of Dom Henry Norbert Birt, 0.5.8., of Downside Abbey, which took place at the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth, London, in . August; Born at Valparaiso in 1861, he was the fourth son, of the late Hugh Birt, M.D. He was educated at St. Augustine’s, Ramsgate, at Kensington ' Catholic Public School, and at “-University College School. He entered

the Benedictine. Order in 1880, and was . ordained nine years later, subsequently- serving- missions 'at ‘’Coventry anc \ Heckfield. He was acting-chaplain to the forces during the South ; ; African war and also'during’ the European Avar. - On the committee of the Catholic Truth Society and the council of the Catholic Record 'Society his services were ungrudgingly rendered and highly appreciated. Amongst the books ’ for the authorship of which he was -responsible were: The History of Downside School, The Elizabethan' Iteligibus Settlement, Jjiiigcird’ s History - Abridged and Drought Down to Date, and J Benedictine Pioneers in Australia. . ■ ■ Ihe once famous Parisian actress, Eve Lavalliere, is about to - take the ’'"veil. For the last two years i she ) has been assisting the sick pilgrims to Lourdes to dip themselves in the healing waters of the famous grotto. She has completely resigned herself to the loss of the enthusiastic applause that always greeted her during her triumphant,; career. Her devotion to works of charity was" always" intended as the prelude to her entry into the full religious life. Before this month is ended (says the London Catholic Times of August 23), she will become a Carmelite in the Convent of Marseilles. . -■ oV'*;*-'.' - ; q-Word has been received in Washington (says Church Progress of St. Louis, U.S.A.) that Mr. Arthur Campbell Turner, son of Mrs. Harriet Stoddert Turner, of Cleveland, has entered the Benedictine Monastery outside London, England." 'Mr. Turner was in the diplomatic of the United States, and was at one time connected with the Legation at Constantinople. At the outbreak of 2 the war he entered the Canadian army, later being raised to the rank of major in Princess -Pat’s regiment: When this country entered the war, he resigned his commission and joined the American v forces. He is about .30 years old, and is a convert to the- Catholic faith. One of his sisters is. the Mother Superior of the Notre Dame Convent at Montreal, Canada. .Mr. Turner is Hie great-grandson of Benjamin Stoddert, e who was the first Secretary of the - Navy in this country, and .of Thomas Campbell, at one time Secretary of the Treasury. \ On Sunday morning, September 14, in: St. Patrick’s Church, Edinburgh, the Scottish. Metropolitan, Most Rev. J. A. Smith, D.D., acting for the Dean of the College of Protonotaries at Rome, officially conferred the dignity of. Protonotary Apostolic on the Right Rev. Mgr. Provost Morris, .0., and invested him with the insignia of his new, office. The church was crowded. Following the reaching of the Papal brief of appointment, the j Monsignor took the oath and made his profession of faith. Afterwards he sang the .High Mass coram Arch iepiscopo. The ’ Bishop Auxiliary preached on the Gospel of the day. At the close, in the name of the Archbishop, in his own name, that of the priests and people of . St. Patrick’s, as well as the clergy and faithful of the whole archdiocese, he congratulated the worthy Monsignor on the signal honor bestowed upon him by the Holy Father as a reward of. his yeoman service to the Catholic Church in Scotland. i

The good news comes from Prague (writes a correspondent; in the London Catholic Times) that its great historic See is no . longer vacant. The Holy Father, has appointed as its Bishop Mgr. Kordac, Professor at the University and distinguished theologian, who is Czech by birth and sentiment, and possesses far-reaching influence among the clergy of Czecho-Slnvakia. His prestige in other circles also bids fair to remove' the unjust bias of some extremists who, in throwing off allegiance to all things German, confound the Church 'with the workings of individual prelates and would convert the magnificent religions foundations that arc the glory of the land -into mere secular institutions.