The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1877-09-02
CA1HOLICITY IN THE or
TCdN.

A correspondent of the Dublin freeman
| writes;
The venerable Metropolitan of the West
Most Rev De. MIiale, has just returned to ST.
Jariath's after heightened and laborou
Confirmation tour over the widest and mos
western portion of his extensive diocese. II,
has visited the deaueIi's of Bsllnrohe, Cliff
den, and the Copnemara dstricts of Tuam ad
Ia inlstering in his course the sacrament oi
ContiI mation to coo persons travelling
more than 200 miles. In bis Grace the vigol
OF youth appears to add it's freshness to a
glorious old sge 1aboTs of the confession al
tolls OF travel, hom which younger persons
might be inclined To recoil, were borne by his
Grace with prompt Willingness that by the
iustre OF Its example to the priests of the
dlstricts visited helped to impart liveier
spur energies that were already aroused. 1t
was truly edifyinR to witness the frequent
crowds that gathered from many nlouutaiu
valley and rugged hillside of Connemara to
greet their beloved Arch bishop, whose hand
had been so often raised to help them. 1t was
almost reward Of the long, glorious. and
eventual war he had waEed in tie kindred in
terests of faith and fatherlaDd to experience
the grateful love shown to him by the people
of Connernara. They remembered wei! that it
was he who had cheered them on in dave Of
glonin aud sorrow, who had encouraged them
10 nGpe Gor a bright pr o5pect hen the horizon
was all dark, and they knew that efforts Of
genius and patriotism had helped very much
to realize that hope. On Sunday week he
arrived at Cionbur, pretty village that lies
in the bosom of well-wooded valley on the
shores of Lcugh Mark; Beuleve, with it's
frownDg crest, arose in the rear-a meet SEN
tinel of his giant brethren further west. Thence
his road lay along the valley of Maam. where
the Corrib first swells into q lake ; by the
Joyce country hills, from which q hundred
silver crested torrents were rolling; by Null
req, the monarch of western mountains, from |
whose boary brow the veil of mist is seldom |
removed by kylemore, the princey seat of
Mr.. Henry, where nature, aided by her band |
maiden art, has done SO much to treat the |
traveller to q vision of beauty that the men,
ory must love TO recall; on to Renvyle-a dis
was administered by his Grace in the parishes
of Clonbur, Ballnakill, Roundstone, Carna,
killeen; and on Sunday evening last be set
ut for ArraD, although at the time the sea
y as "whise with the foam of its wrath" and
The deck WAS often washed with spray, max
nS the passage IA dlsagrecable pas
sage might be-; but be could not disappoint
the hopes OF the people OF Arran to see their
Archbishop among them, and right royalty
hey received him. hundred boats, gay
with many pendant bearing scrolls and de-
'ices, strange and new, but religious and ma
'ioEa!, came from the island to act as u convoy
If borOri bnt the braVest greeting of all was
,iven by fleet of canoes, rowed by the
tall sons of Arran. The sea, apgereG into
Oam by the rapid beat of the oars, reminded
ne of the vivid picture Of Claudia, in which
Ie describes bow the seas of Britain Were ag-
ated by the invading squadrons of hisb:
WHEN cots came laundering from the Irisb shores,
AID the sta loaned, struck with hostile oAIS." r
On Monday 30S of the ArrRn youth were j
ontirmed. On returning from the Arran k
stands and confirming 200 children in the v
arsh of Spiddal, his Grace returned 10 St. k
ariath's, III vigorous health and spirits b
heered by the assurance tha holy work had 9
cen successfully accomplished at his hands, Il
nd that he had distributed 10 a faithful peo- t.
le the good gifts of the Lord. His Grace re- n
Drned home, but not TO rest, for, on Friday,
Q purposes 10 hold CoDfI nation in the me-
,opolitan parish of Tuam, and during the
,ming week in several parishes of the West -"
Ort deGnery.