The Irish standard., 1903-06-27
THE END COMES.
Death of Cardinal Vaughan, Archbishop
of Westminster.

cial cable dispatch from London:
Very lSev. Herbert Vaughan. car.
dinal and archbishop of Westminster
after an illness of three months, due to
heart disease and dropsN, died ut mid
night last night. His death WAS peace
full, ana in Il sense unexpected, rs il
WIS thought that he was rnilying from
| the combination of diseases which had
afflicted him since last March
Though the end WAS sudden. Car
dinal Vaughan had made every prep
aration in his ecclesiastical affairs
Thursday he appeared in the full
robes OF his Office in the chapel of
st. Joscph's College which he found
ed. and made Il farewell address 10 his
bishops and priests. Yesterday he was
| wheeled in Il bath chair about the cor
ridorS Of the college. The cardinal
was thought TO be near death In" in
March, since which time he had been
rallying ut times. He was in his
| seycnty-sccond year. His body will
lie in state in The cathedral at West.
minister, and will lie buried in st
.IoSeph's Church.
His cmincncc. Herbert Vaughan,
cardinal. ID. ID. and archbishop of
| Westminster had bccn the head of
| the church of Rnmc in England since
| the death of his great predecessor,
| Cardinal Manning. in 1892. lie came
from y family that was one Of the
| most ancient and honorable of the
| realm, and had been noted for its
Staunch devotion to the Catholic
church since tllc days of Henry VIII.
Cardinal Vaughan WAS born ut
Gloucester. April II. lS:2 He was
The eldest son of tho late Lieutenant
Colonel Vaughan of tollrtficld. Her
fordSlirc. and the first of six SONS of
his parents TO enter the prirsthood
His education WAS received at stony
hurst College. Lancashire. on tho con-
tin"nt and at Rome. where llc entered
the Academia lci Nohil f.rclcslStici.
1T tho a"c of % the future arch
bishop was ortinncd Il priest ut Lucc;l.
Returning to England he became
n member of the Oblaics of st
Charles, an order of secular priests
founded ;It BaySwatnr by Cardinal
Manning. Thence he VAS sent to ST.
i,dmund's College. near VASE. of
which he WAS vice president until 1Sti..
when he became Il special representa-
tive of the church to gather funds for
the foundations Of Il missionary col
lpg".
ON this crrAnt, he visited the Uni
ted States in 1863. In 1860 he found
ed the Institution 50 dear to his heart
in his last days. st. .Toseph'S Foreign
Missionary College. at Mill Hill, in
MidhIcscX. Toward the close of 1871
he accompanied to Maryland the first
Iuspph's College to the negroes of the
United States.
On the death of Bishop Turner the
future Cardinal Vaughan was made
Bishop of Stafford. hrin" consccratcd
Oct. 2S. 1872. While bishop of SAL
ford he published Il series of letters.
which made him prominent in the cru
sadie against intcmpcrancc. the move
m"nt for rescue work among children
and ihr cause of commercial educa
tion. In tho interests of the last
named object he built ST. Bcde's Col
logo.
The appointment of Bishop
Vaughan as archbishop of WcStmin-
stcr occurred March % 1899. by the
pope on recommendation of tho prOpa-
@anda. IN january, 1893. came the
crowning honor of the cardinalship,
for which Archbishop Vaughan WAS
summoned to Rome where he was
treated with great distinction.
Cardinal Van"lan's influence on
English thought had been very great.
His Clouurncc. combined With Il digni-
fed and commanding presence. made
him a persona power with all who he
met, and his published writings are
numerous.
AS tho proprietor of the Tablet Il
newspaper. and the Dublin Review. he
had wide influence apart from his
prirstly Office. Under his leadership
In, rnfhnli, ,l,,1
vcrts from the high-church element Of
the Anglican church.
Perhaps the most important of Car
dinal Nau%han's public uttcranccs was
delivered in September. 1897. on the
occasion of the celebration of the
thirteenth centenary anniversary Of
the landing of ST. Augustine and his
monks ut Ehhsflcet His emphasis of
what he declared to be "the divine
purpose of visible unity amongst Chris
tians as Il fact of revelation" excited
much public interest all over the
world. and drew attention to the move
mcnt toward Rome in England.
During the events leading up to war
| between the United States and Spain
he had the collect for peace said in
all the churches under his control. and
when the outbreak of hOstiities came
his voice was raised in disapproval of
| bloOdshed The late cardinal took n
| prominent part in the movement for a
moral alliance between the United
| States and Great Britain.
'"The world" he said, "is governed