The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1874-02-02
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Right Rev. willi.m Ke.ne, ID. d.


Right Rev. William Keane. Catholic Bishop OF
the diocese OF Cloyne, Ireland, died at his resi-
dence on the 18th OF January, in the sixty-ninth
year OF his age. His name and reputation are
worldwide, particularly for Irishmen. He was born
at Castlemartyr, Cork, on the sth OF April 1906.
After having passed some years In preparatory
education near his home he became a student OF
the Irish College at Paris. There he went
through the usual course OF theological train
ing, and received full orders the 2Sh
July, 1928. For nearly eleven years subsequent to
his ordination he onlciated as Dean and Vice
President of the Irish College in Paris and the fact
OF that establishment having been so intimately
connected with his ecclesiastical career always
| operated with him as one OF the stimulating mo-
tives which melted him in after life to o consan-
aud abiding interest in its arairs. DR.. Keane was
| sought out by his superiors at home Tor mis-
| sionary work, and accordingly he was, in 1889,
| transferred from Paris to the curacy In Fer
moy. Alter year having been spent in this
| position he was promoted TO the parish OF Mid
| dleton. For ten years he was among the people OF
that town and parish as their Chief pastor, and the
| memory OF his good acts survives among them
| with unmpaired strength. In that period the par
| ism passed through the distress and vlcsstudes OF
the famine years, and AL classes parties and sects
have remembered how he tOiled among them. In
| 1850 the diOceses OF Cloyne and Ross were sepa-
rated and py marked vote Of the clergy Of the
The list. The choice OF the clergy was ratified
by the bishops OF the province, and the
and DR.. Keane, at age comparatively early
Tor advancement TO 80 high a position, was APP
arrangement. In his administration OF the spirit
ual affairs OF Ross he fully indicated the selection
OF vacancy in the see OF Cloyne, in the year 1851
occasioned his transfer to that wider and more
ne Re sse Of on
that heightened period he never spared him.
In in schools and
MES and in Journeyings to and fro for all
these purposes ms life was almost absorbed.
HIS lie was diversified by frequent journeys 10
Rome to Paris, Brussels and Louvalne-all under
taken in the interests OF religion education.
Having been selected to act as theOlogian at the
synod OF Thurles by his episcopal predecessor, the
Right Rev. DR.. Murphy, the aptitude he exhibited
marked him out for a mission to Rome IN 1858 as
the bearer OF the Provincial Synodal DEGREES. DR..
Keane paid a prolonged visit TO Rome in
s sOeg in %nr% with the bishops
the supreme Pontiff TO attend the great council
OF the Vatican. In the sttings OF that famous
| Parliament Of the Church DR.. Keane maintained
conspicuous position, and speech, which he de-
livered in support of the doctrine Of Papa nalli-
ough eruditlOn and logical vlgOr. 1t Will be
ected that the sittngs OF the Council into the
extreme heat of summer-a time when even the
Oldest and most accl,matized inhabitants OF Rome
fee from 1t, in order TO reap the sanitary advan-
may be attributed the seeds OF the malady which
terminated IN the untimely death OF DIR. Keane
He suhered in terrible degree from the su1ocat
Ing and malarOuS climate OF Rome at that par
ticuar season, and when he returned from that
city to Ireland IN the autumn it was subject OF
general remark how he had deteriOrated in
physical strength. Soon after symptoms OF mental
decay set in, which for time were attributed to
some disease OF the brain. A later and more &C
curate diagnosis detected the existence of heart
disease. and 1t was then ascertalned that the
irregular and slow circulation which attends the
form under which he suffered was the cause OF
the head affection.
Bishop Keane patronized every national Irish
movement, helped 1t by his voice, his pen and his
purse. Even WITHIN the walls OF the British Par
Lament his voice penetrated. and the degree OF
which before hostile committee he argued the
case OF the irish tenant Will not soon be forgotten
in Great Britain Exposed Tor hours TO the frgid
and supercillOus dogmatism OF Mr. Lowe he main
tanned his position against that adept in logical
fence with all the courage derived rom the posses.
sion OF good cause and a profound knowledge OF
Its merits and details Even almost from his
deathbed he dictated a remarkable diocesan decla.
ration in favor OF home rule, and which suggested
the recent Conference in Dublin. While DR.. Keane
was in most cases in perfect accord with his aity
on political subjects, he never on the very rare
occasions when ne would differ from them, AFRO
gated to himself the right OF dlctation-
Ramis Pacha, of the Turkish Artillery.
RAMS Pacha General Schwenzeur) died just
lately at Constant inople at an advanced age. The
deceased. q Prussan by birth, was one OF the
earliest European artillery Officers who went out
to Constantinope with the present Field Marshal
Won Moltke, nearly forty years ago. to instruct the
Turkish army, with which he has ever since been
identified in his own branch OF the procession
Esteemed alike by Turks and Christ ians, his III.
neral was an imposing ceremony.
NlonsignOr AlOuvry.
The death, from dropsy Of the heart is an
nosnced OF Mgr. Alouvry, formerly Bishop Of
Painters (Ariege), France. Having occupied that
post from the year 1885, he transferred, in 1885,
to Paris, in the parish Of saint-sulpce. 1t was he
who Officiated at Notre Dame for the ObseIuies OF
Mgr. Darboy, and at the Madeleine for the Able
Duguerry.
M. A. TrOgnon.
NJ Auguste Trognon, Private Secretary and for
merly Preceptor Of the Prince de Joinvile, has
died at Paris, aged seventy-eight years. The de-
ceased having been the attendant OF the Prince
nia avyla q of Erap