The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1876-09-17


with eminent ability, for upwards of nine.
teen years. On the illness of DR.. Fallon
Bishop OF kilmscdaugh and Kilfenora, Dr.
MacEvilly was charged by the Holy See
with the administration of those united do
ceses. With the exception of the Right
Kew. DIR. Gillooly, Bishop of E,phin, who
was coneecrated a few months before him,
Or. MacEvilly is considerably the SEN
TO- Of any of the six Suffrsgan Bishops of
the province of Tusm, and has had great
experience in episcopal administration.
LIS lordship has found time, in the midst
OF onerous duties, to prepare and publish
a" Exposition Of the Gospels, a work which
has been highly reviewed in the Catholic
Press, at home aud abroad. Speculation
ana Interest are busy regarding the ap-
pointment of a CoaGjutor, but Rome DEGREES,
and must be obeyed.
THE LATE MGR ocoNNELL.
Mgr. O'ConpelI, Dean of the Diocese of
Dublin, died Aug. 2Oth at the age of "a.
The Dublin Freeman's Journal says of the
deceased =" Few names were better or
more widely known than bic, and even in
the ranks of the devoted and cherished
hierarchy of the Irish Church there was not
one who was regarded with a more affec-
tioDate reverence, or held more honored
place in the popular heart. He is nearly
the last of a great old race of ecclesiastics
who, whilst they lived, connected the Irish
Church of our happier time with the Irish
Church of the days of persecution and of
sorrow, and by whom the peace and pros
Perlty it now enjoys were all the more ap-
pTecated because of their own memories
and the traditions of the somewhat gloomy
II glorious past. He was born in Dublin
of respectable parents, and received an ex,
cellent education in such classical schools as
were then available for Catholic bows.
From thence he proceeded on to the College
of May nooth, which was then but a few
years in existence, and completed there a
course which was highly creditable to him
self and eminently satisfactory to his su-
perlors and professors. He received ordi-
nation during the episcopacy of the Most
h tS Dr. Troy, and was appointed by the
Most Rev. DR.. Murray, who was conductor
to DR.. Troy, to the curacy of st. Audeon's |
parish. Zeal, prudence, earnestu ess, strict |
attention to every duty; gentleness, min
gled with tirmness, and an Astounding cour- |
teous good nature, we're the chsracteristics |
1hat olstingulshed the young priestfron the |
earliest days of his ministry, and thew re- |
manned with him in all their multitude |
through the long years of it's continuance,
From st. AudsOn's he was transferred |
across the river and placed in the curacy
of the metropolitan parish, whose modest
little church was then located in Liffey-
street. Before many years the cathedral
parish was supplied with a more fitting
temple 10 the new, costly and sacred edIfice
In Marlborough street. During his years
in Liffey street and in Marlborou gh- at rect
he was all that an earnest priest could be.
and endeared himself to his fellow lsborers
in the ministry and to the people amongst
whom he lived by his kindly readiness to
Dblige and his evident desire to be of use
amongst them. On the elevation of the
sanity Most Rev. DR.. Blake to the episco
pal See Of Dromore, Father Andrew O'Con-
nell was appointed to the pastorship of the
parish of SIS. Michael and John, left vacant
by DR.. Blake's promotion" On the death
Of its parish priest, the Very Rev. Mr.
Finn, DR.. O'Connell was transferred to the
parish of Irishtown. He was appointed
Domestic Prelate to his Holiness, and on
the death of Dean Moyler was nominated
head of the Diocesan Chapter of Dublin.
There was not charity in the metropolis
that was not largely indebted to his gener-
oslty and support. He was hon. secretary
Tor years to the Society for the Propagation
If the Faith, and no clergymen in Dublin
was more frequently made the channel of
to Catholic charities. He was
devoted follower and an attached personal
riend of his great nameeake the Liberator,
vas an active member of the O'Conneli
Monument Committee, and one of the most
earnest leaders of the late Centenary Cele-
in which he took prominent
part.