PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 30 December 1920, Page 35

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

The .recent death of Rev. .Theodore A. Metcalfe, of 1 the archdiocese of Boston, U.S.A., leaves Cardinal Gibbons ihe only surviving American who. attended : the Vatican Council.: :; His Eminence was then Vicar 'Apostolic .of North Carolina, while Father Metcalfe was one of the stenqgraphc secretaries of the Council, being later appointed, Vice-Rector of the American College in ■■:"'Romeyi and still later Chancellor <of the archdiocese of :; Boston.'T. ': .-- Monsignor Lemaitre, Vicar Apostolic ;of the Sahara, has" just been appointed by the Pope,' co-adjutor to the Archbishop of Carthage. In mentioning this appointment, one: of the Paris papers remarked 4 M. Clemenceau, during his! tenure of office as Premier of France, one day had ! a long conversation with Monsignor Lemaitre, : at. the close of whch he declared: '-'One hour's 'talk with "this priest has taught me much" more than day-long discussion with many ,_deputies," "I; .'-':.; .-;•'• "\: . : :; -The Pastoral issued* by_ the American Bishops this year, as a result of their conference in Washington last September, was so long (says the Register, Denver), that we are afraid few read through it, but we remember at the time that it was sure to lead to conversions among thinking non-Catholics who would peruse it. The truths set forth in it were so logically presented that this was to be naturally expected. The Catholic Columbian recently reported one of these happy conversions, that of Miss Ellen Gates Starr, co-founder with the famous Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago. Miss Starr is a descendant of Mayflower stock and from the family of Ethan Allen of Ticonderosa fame. She has long been a leader in social reform, and is an authority on Italian art. The Right Rev. Dr. Matthew Gibney, D.D., retired Bishop of. Perth, West Australia, has reached the age of 85 years. He came to Australia from Ireland in 1863. As Bishop of Perth from 1887 till 1910, he was particularly vigorous, his diocese, until the foundation of the See of Geraldton in 1898, extending over the whole of West Australia. His work included .the introduction of several Orders of priests and nuns and the Christian Brothers, and the foundation of schools, orphanages, reformatories, and hospitals. Since 1910 Bishop Gibney has been living in retirement and Archbishop Chine has continued and solidfied his work. - r . The Most Rev. John Aloysius Maguire, Archbishop of Glasgow, who died at Crossbill House (towards the end of October) after a long and tedious illness was born in Glasgow on September 8, 1851. His parents were Irish, and he was the only son of a' large family. Four of "his sisters entered the religious life as Franciscan Nuns in the Convent of the Immaculate Conception, Glasgow. One of them held the office of Abbess for over ten years. The late Archbishop studied at St. Mungo's AcademV, Glasgow, and at St. Aloysisus' College, and later went to Stbnyhurst. Later still he entered Glasgow University and attended the law classes with a view to entering the legal profession, \\hen he reached his 20th year he heard the call of the Church; Relinquishing legal studies he proceeded to Rome and commenced hi* preparation for the priesthood. After a brilliant career at Propaganda College he was ordained to the priesthood in 1875. On his return to Scotland he was for -a' time assistant priest in the Cathedral parish, where he celebrated his first Mass. In 1890 he was consecrated Auxiliary Bishop at the early age of 42. In 1902, on the death of Archbishop Eyre, he was appointed to the vacant Archbishopric. A remarkable testimony to the love and esteem in which Archbishop Maguire was held was given * when his remains were laid to rest in Old Dalkeith Cemetery;-