The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1878-11-02
CARDINAL CULLEN.

There are few of our readers who have not
become, in some connection or other, iamlllai
with the name of Cardinal Paul Cullen, arch
Ibishop of Dublin, whose death was mentioned
in our resume of foreign news last week. y
brief biographical sketch of HIM, therefore
cannot fail to be Of interest to them. We cut
the following from the y. y. W0rid;
Cardinal Paul Cullen, Archbishop of Dub
| lin, the first Irish prclatc who has been raised
TO the Cardinalatc since the Reformation, died
Yesterday at Dublin, in the scvenly-iiith year
I0f his are He was born in the County OF
Carlow, Ireland and while quite young went
| to Rome where he was educated in the Col
| lcgc of the Propaganda For thirty years he
remained in Rome and during that time he
occupied several chairs in the Roman colleges
! After his graduation from the Propaganda and
! his ordination as Il priest he was made FRO
fcssor of Hebrew in the Irish College of St
Clements, and occupied that position for sew.
eral years. Some time before the flight OF
| Plus Y from Rome to Gacta DIR. Cullen was
made President of the Irish College, and dur
| ing the revolution that kept the Pope away
from Rome and also compelled the absence OF
all the Italian clergy Dr. Cullen was placed
| in charge of all the Church educational estab-
lishmcnts in the city, The republicans were
confiscating the Church property by wholesale
and the position which DR. Cullen held was
one of peculiar dclicacy. BY his great tact
| and remarkable tirmness he succeeded in saw
ing at Il very critical moment both the Propa-
randa and the Roman College, which he placed
| under the protection of the American flag.
When the Pope returned to Rome after the
failure of the revolution, he rewarded DIR. Cul-
len for his services rendered to the Church by
lappointing HIM to the ArchbShOpric Of Ar
magh, which had become vacant by the death
of Archbishop Crolly. 1t will be remembered
that upon the death of Archbishop Crolly, the
sutrages failed to agree in selecting a success
or, and hence the appointment went TO the
Pope. In 1850 DR.. Cullen was consecrated
end went at once to Ireland with the title OF
" Primate of All Ireland"
Immediately after his return to Ireland,
which he had left as boy to study at Rome
to come back thirty years later as the head OF
the Catholic Church in his native land he set
himself to work in recognizing the different
educational institutions connected with the
Church. He was always opposed to the mixed
school system of the British Government IN
stitutions and the Queens colleges, and laborcd
diligently to counteract their effect as prosclyt
ing influences by the establishment of Catho-
lie shoots where primary and secondary cdu-
lectcd bv the Church. TO perfect this system
he called a synod at Thurles and eilectual
measures were adopted for the foundation of a.
Catholic University.
Archbishop Murray, of Dublin, died in 1852,
and in order that Archbishop Cullen might
have a better opportunity to carry ont his edu-
catlonal plans he was translated from the SeeI
of Armagh to that of Dublin In giving up
the Archblshopric of Armagh he lost that pri-I
NATAL rank inherent in that see, but he was
confirmed for life in his position Of delegate
apostolic, and thus remained at the head OF theI
Irish hierarchy. Two years later the plan for
a university head to the Catholic schools of
Ireland had so far advanced that property was
bought in Dublin and university courses wercI
opened by a Faculty headed by John Henry
Newman as President At Drumcondra, mi
July, 1862 the cornerstone for the new univer
sity building was laid, and Cardinal McClos-
key, of this city, preached the sermon at the
ceremony.
In June 1866, Archbishop Cullen was Great
ed Cardinal, and, in addition to his being
the first lrishman who had attained so high
an ecclesiastical rank since the era of the Re
formation, he was the very first CARDINAL Sc
lectcd from the almost countless preates edu-
Gated in the College Of the Propaganda. The
Irish Cardinal in October of 1867 called to-
gether the archbishops and bishops of Ireland,
and, as dclegateapOstollc, presided over the
meeting At this meeting resolutions were
passed and afterwards published declining all
help from the state and condemning the mixed
school system and all secret societies. Cardi-
nal Cullen took prominent part IN the Coun-
ell of the Vatican in the discussion OF the
question of the infallbillty of the Pope, and
throughout the debates he was conspicuously
in favor of the dogma.