The Irish standard., 1899-07-29

Cured Daniel O'Connell's arrest and

CURED Daniel O'Connell's arrest and
imprisonment in Richmond Jail. The
students OF MIR. Naughtons school, in
their exuberant patriotism, decided to
present an address to the imprisoned
liberator, and young Ryan, who was
even then noted for his forensic abili-
ties, was chosen to deliver it. How we'll
he acquitted himself or the task may be
judged from the fact that he made such
all impression upon O'Connel that,
when, years afterwards, young Ryan
found himself unable to get into hall
where "tl1e immortal Dan" was himself
to hold forth, and bethinking that, per-
haps, if he saw O'Connell, that great
man might remember him and get him
seat, it so happened that the Liberia
tor no sooner saw the lad than he said:
"Ah! you are the little red-headcd chap
who greeted me at Richmond so splen-
didly. Indeed, my boy, you shall have
a seat, and one OF the very best in the
house, too"
From Mr.. Naughton's school young
Ryan passed to Carlow College in 1847,
the year that saw Archbishop Hennessy
start across the ocean for St. Louis, as
a student of the St. Louis diocese.
"Still the poetry of environment writes
one OF his biographers, fingered around
his way. For Carlow is rich i'll mem
ories as the territory of his own house
OF Idrone. The ancient history of the
town OF Carlow is perpetuated by a
castle which sustained no less than
three sieges The Protestant
church, while. very lofty, is overtopped
by the Catholic Cathedral, which has a
lantern tower Isl feet high. Within the
Cathedral is the celebrated marble mon
ument to the great j. K. L. Carlow's
historic bishop, James Doyle. St. Pat
rick's College stands close TO the cathe-
dral, in park of unrivaled beauty and
greenness, beside the Barrow, and to
St. Patrick's belongs the honor of hav-
ing been the first ecclesiastical college
established in Ireland after the relaxa-
ton of the penal laws"
Archbishop Ryan has revisited the
scenes OF his youth more than once since
he bade them adieu, to follow Arch
bishop Hennessy across the Atlantic to
St. Louis and Carondelet. Towards the
end of 1882" the annals OF the Caron-
delet institution certify, eve had acces-
sions to our ecclesiastical staff in the
persons of two very talented and distin--
guished deacons, Rev. Patrick A. Fee
han and Rev. Patrick John Ryan, des-
tined to remain at the seminary until OF
age for ordination as priests" Arch
bishop Hennessy, who is some years the
senior of Archbishop Ryan, was then or
dained and doing missionary duty in the
country parishes Of New Madrid and
Gravois, and Father Ryan was not or
daincd until September 8, 1853. His
subsequent career needs not to be told
here. One OF his previous most noted
returns to the scenes Of his youth was
the visit which he made to Carlow in
1884, the year that he was made an arch
bishop, but at time in that year when
he was still coadjutor TO Archbishop
Kenrick. Then he visited Carlow
celebrated Pontifcal High Mass in the
college chapel, and was welcomed in all
address, one passage Of which ran thus
"Deservedly chosen as coadjutor bishop
of the diocese of St. Louis, you shine
forth as the glory and ornament of the
still youthful Church of America. By
your piety, learning and zeal, you are
amplifying the faith which is steadily
growing there. Not alone in the cities
of the new world has your eloquence
won high renown, but at Rome as well
at Paris and here at home in your own
dear and holy Ireland, have multitudes
hung breathless on your words. AS an
other Chrysostom-of the West-you
attain by the golden flow of your won
drous gift, to the fame Of that great
Father of the Eastern Church"
If it be true, as the poet sings, that in
youth young mans fancy lightly turns
to thoughts Of love, none the less true
is it that in our old age our hearts and
our thoughts return fondly to the scenes
Of ou1 youth. Archbishop Ryan is not
yet an old man, in the strict sense of the
word; and he is far younger than his
years indicate. But he is old enough to
know that longing that comes to every
mortal with the growth OF his years to
get back again amid the scenes of his
infancy and boyhood, and look once
more-maybe for the last tir1le-npon
the faces of the friends who survive that
he knew in the long ago.
Pray for Priests Who are Dead.