The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-02-03
DEATH OF REP. FATHER DE LUYNEs
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N. Y. Tablet, jan. IS.

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Rev. II. G. De Luynes, of the Society OF
Jesus, and assistant pastor of st. Francis
Aavier's Church, New York, died at an
early hour on Sunday morning. Though
he had for long time been ailing, he did
not confine himself to bed till ten DAYS be
fore his death. He was constantly attend
ed during his sickness by the devoted
members of his order, and died pious
and exemplary death. The remains will
be inferred in the cemetery at st. Johns
College, Fordbam.
Father de Luynes was in Lis aeventy-
third year at the date of his death, and had
served in the holy ministry for q period of
forty y-eight years. He was an eloquent
preacher, man of rare intellectual attain
n1ents, and charitable and generous to the
poor. He was horn in Paris, in 1905, of
Irish parents. His father had been sent
over to France, in 1897 8, to the then
executive, as the accredited agent of the
to his native land, he settled in France,
where he died in 1927. His name, which
was OLewins, became grad ually galliczed
into it's present shape. He graduated from
St. Sulpice, Paris, and was ordained by
Mgr. Guelin, Archbishop of Paris, 1925.
Father DE Luynes was the friend and
rellow-student of Pere Lacordaire, and the
two young men agreed that after ordina-
ton they would emigrate to the United
States and there serve in the diocese of
Bardstown, Ky., under Bishop Flaget. The
young Lacordaire after ordination declined
10 leave France, bat De Luynes, after
spending q shortstlme in Ireland, adhered
to his original determination. While in
Ireland he was the assistant for time of
the famous DR.. Doyle ("J. X. L"), the
Bishop of Kildare and Leighlin, and acted
FOR q brief period as u professor ia -Garlaw
College. AT this period he resolved to keep
hispromise to Bishop Flaget, and, declining
fiattering offers from DR.. Doyle. DR.. Power
tthen Vicar General of New York;, and
from Archbishop Whitfield of Baltimore,
made his way to keptucky. This was in
1881. at Bardstown he successively or
simultaneously taught theology in the sem
mary, was professor in ST. j oseph's College,
chaplain of the Sisters of Charity at Naza.
reth, editor of the Catholic Adrocate and
pastor of the Cathedral. He was a man of
wonderful industry and knew not what it
after bis arrival in the New World he
entered the Society of Jesus, and continued
30 discharge duties similar to those in
which he had been engaged. In Is46 on
the invitation of the late Archbishop
Hughes, be, with the other Jesuit Fathers
of st. Mary's College, Kentucky, came to
this city, which he may be said to have
made his home thereafter, although he was
absent for short periods in Brooklyn, Troy,
and travelling through Mexico and Chill.
The latter TWO places he visited with
Father Maldanado in I649 for the purpose
of collecting funds to finish the church of
St. Francis Xavier and the college under
whose roof he died. Subsequently to the
tour mentioned he served tor time at the
college in Havana. He had great regard
Tor Spanish speaking people, and lett q
very wide circle of acqusintapces among
the better class of such residing in this city
TO deplOre his loss.