Here and There

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 10, 18 March 1925, Page 45

Here and There

J; Silver Jubilee of Archbishop Mackintosh.-- • Mgr. Donald Mackintosh, Archbishop of Glasgow, celebrates this year the silver jubilee of his ordination. The Archbishop belongs to the Mackintoshes of Invernesshirc The Mackintosh of Moy Hall, head of the Clan Chattan, is their Chief. The Archbishop is well called to rule over a diocese that contains many Gaelic-speaking Catholics, for Gaelic was the only language that he knew and spoke until he went to school. The Archbishop was ordained in Rome, after • being Rector of the Scots College he was consecrated by Cardinal de Lai in 1922. * * * New Belgian Bishop Appointed.—The Holy See has nominated Canon Kerkhofs, of the Liege Chapter, to be Bishop-auxiliary with right of succession, in place of the late Bishop Laminne. The Bishop-designate is a native of Limburg, and is in his 47th year. He was ordained 25 years ago at Liege, and has spent his whole career in the diocese. The consecration takes place shortly, when Canon Kerkhofs will be consecrated titular Bishop of Diocaesarea, the ancient Palestine town of Sepphoris, which is situated between Mount Carmel and Nazareth. • * • Death of the Bishop of Salford.— The Church in England has (says Catholic News Service, London, for January 26) lost a great J pastor of souls, a scholar of world-wide fame, ""- and a prelate of the profoundest humility by the death of Mgr. Louis Charles Casartelli, Bishop of Salford, who has gone to his eternal reward after a long illness, borne with heroic Christian fortitude. Dr. Casartelli was a native of Manchester, where he was born in November, 1852. His father was an Italian of Oomo, who established a flourishing business in the metropolis of cotton. The future Bishop received his early education at the Catholic Grammar School, and after a brilliant career at Ushaw, proceeded to the University of London, where he graduated M.A., and won the gold medal for classics. Louvain then followed, where he studied Oriental languages, and then his ordination by Cardinal Vaughan, who was then Bishop. of Salford, and then eight years of teaching at St. Bede's College, which had been founded by Bishop Vaughan. But Louvain still beckoned, and Father Casartelli returned to Belgium, where he specialised in the Semitic languages—Sanskrit, Zend, and Pehlevi. He .took his doctorate, his thesis being "La Philosophic du Mazden ism'esous les Sassanides" a study of Zoroastrianism in the early Christian centuries. In 1891 he returned to St. Bede's as its Rector, I retaining the professorship of Zend and LehJ*-' levi at Louvain, as well as the lectureship in dr the Iranian languages at Manchester Uni- ( versity. The elevation to the episcopate came in 1903, when the Holy See appointed Dr. Casartelli to succeed Bishop Bilsborrow as Bishop of Salford, to which See he was conN ." secrated by Cardinal Bourne in September,

1903. As a diocesan Bishop Dr. Oasartelli displayed remarkable vigor. He promoted all Catholic good works, particularly social works. He encouraged the Catholic Federation in its opposition to the educational reforms, so-called, of Mr, Birrell, thus saving not only the Catholic schools but also the Anglican Church schools, which would have shared the fate of the Catholic schools Under Birrellism. Bishop Casartelli was buried in the Campo Santo at Moston cemetery, after a Requiem in Sal ford Cathedral, at which Cardinal Bourne presided. The Requiem was celebrated by Bishop Vaughan, a brother of the late Cardinal and Auxiliary to Dr. Casartelli. Five bishops were present at the Requiem, and ten religious Orders of men sent their representatives. The Lord Mayor of Manchester and the Town . Clerk of Salford were present; municipal bodies were represented, learned societies sent delegates, while consular representatives of Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland, and Venezuela attended on behalf of their respective countries. At the end of the Requiem Cardinal Bourne, at the head of five bishops, pronounced the Absolutions at the catafalque, and then, with an escort of mounted police, the six bishops with 300 priests attended Bishop Casartelli to his last resting place. » » » Oldest Monk Passes Away.— monastery of Einsiedeln has recently lost its oldest monk. Father Clement Hegglin has died there at the age of 97. As a youth, the deceased religious entered the monastery of Muri, in Argovia, an- institute which was subsequently suppressed during the anticlerical movements of the last century. The last student of the monastery at Muri is now gone, but his memory will survive in the hearts of those who were edified by the example of his holiness. From Muri the young man passed to Einsiedeln, where he was ordained priest in the year 1851. Even this celebrated institute had to undergo persecution. But the Catholics of the Canton of Schwyz resisted the onslaught and the monastery of Einsiedeln did not have to endure the fate of so many other religious houses in the various sections.of Switzerland. Father Clement loved music, and the chant in particular. To this pursuit he ascribed a salutary efficacy; it was accompanied by a rigorous rule of life, and a sparse diet. He became Master of the Chant, and taught it when in his ninetieth year, in the house of the poor and orphaned at Einsiedeln. But Father Clement was not only a musician. He was also a professor in the college and theological seminary of his monastery, prefect of the conventual institute at Disentis, and confessor in the convents for women at Seedorf and Fahir. Study, music, and pastoral, cares always occupied Father Clement fully. He rejoiced in splendid physical and mental powers, and his unvaried joyousness of soul made him a favorite with all. So he lived to nearly one hundred, and closed. his life gently and peacefully as he'had lived. s

Priest Poet Wins . Lasserre Prize.—From Paris comes the news that the committee of sixteen writers called upon to make the award, each year, at a meeting held in the Ministry of Public Instruction, of the Las* serre prize of 10,000 francs, gave it this year to the poet Louis le Cardonnel. Many people learned for the first time from the articles published the day after this decision, that Louis le r Cardonnel is a priest. Abbe Louis le Cardonnel is now 62 years of age. He wrote his first poems in 1822. At that time he Was part of the advance guard of the literary movement headed by Mallarme, and he had become, the friend of Huysmaris. Later,' he was-to go with the latter to live in the Benedictine Monastery at Liguge, where he developed a passion for the study of religious things. He went to Rome, entered the French 'Seminary there, and completed his philosophical and theological training. He was ordained at the age of 34 and went to his native diocese of Valence. But the Benedictine life attracted him. A novice in the Monastery of Liguge, under the name of Brother Anselm, he found Huysmans, who had retired there as an Oblate. Unfortunately, however, health did not enable him to follow the Benedictine rule, so he resumed his life as a secular priest and went to live in Italy, at Florence, Rome, and Assisi. He is now living in the latter city, in company with some Francisoans, with. Johannes Joergenson. Louis le Cardonnel has published three .volumes of verse. In the first "Poemes," which appeared in 1904, he collected the verse written during'a period of twenty-four years. Ten years later only five hundred copies had been sold. In 1912 he published The Carmina Sacra. He has now published Be Vune a V autre Aurore (From One Dawn to Another). But glory has come, and in a few days three editions have been brought out.