The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-10-08

rev. Albert Reinhart, o. p, pastor of St Josephs
church, Somerset o. and editor of the Rosary Maya
zine, was stricken with paralysis while conducting
the High Mass at his parish church Sept 49, He was
nealateiy carried to the rectory and latest re-
ports ms condition is unchanged Physicians offer lit
TIE nope OF MS complete recovery. whole left side
IS parayzed and the vocal organs are so affected tba
ne Is unable to make himself understood
Fatner Reinhart is one of the ablest members of
the Dominican order He is an orator of rreat po,yo
ana eloquence and is we'll known in MANY parts of
Tue country as lecturer and director of retrea+s
~. 10 ABOUT 70 years OF age and was in the prime of
,is hisoE ana usefulness He is known as a. man Of
HlHlant gifts and versatile scholarship a ooet and
essayst and for the past four or fire wears has did
the rosary Magazine With remarkable success Re
lore joining the Domincans Father Reinbart MO- =
prominent member of the Cincinnati bar and had &C.
taohsheq reputation a powerful and r,ae,a+io
pieader His affection will be real calamity, 70 h
, uel ana source of deepest regret among all Who
know him. s al VINO
me -FOUR MASTERS-THEIR GREAT WoR1<
49,; 20 70 De regretted that there large propor
- NJ iiiSninen lor whom the name of The Four
masters has but little interest or neanne, ,,.;4
j. Madden in the Gael" The very nar,a so -
carry with it somewhat of a puzzle which does not
nelp 10 create interest to whom they were what
they did, or Why they were so called Such sto+a ~
affairs shows ingrattude unintehtonaI or othert
TO those immortal characters and culpabIe NEGLECT
OIL the history of our country
The names of the -Four Mastersp arc
Michael OClery, chief
Conary O'Clery, his brother
Cucogry OClery, distant relative
Fearfeasa OMulconry
1hey compiled from scattered noanuscrinte ,n5
documents relating to Ireland in her own Ianouago
what is now called the Annals of Ireland {" or the
Annals of the Four Masters" These annals arc =
Systematically arranged chronology of events in Tra
land, from the Deluge to AID 1916 The patron of
this great work Fergal OGara lord of Nov
OGara and Cooavin, in the County of Sligo who frc+
conceived the idea of collecting the materials and
communicated the same to Michael OClerv who WITH
the others made the compilation which thew were
literally rewarded by OGara
. Ihe work was commenced the 22nd dav of Ian
uary, 1882 in the Convent the Franciscan Order in
Donegal, and it finished in the same convent on
the 10th of August, 1856.
One of the great institutions of Milesian Ireland
was the office of ollamh (pron Olav) or historian
which was hereditary in every clan. 1t was the ex
elusive duty of these historians keep record of all
transactions relating to the Giants history achieve
ments, trumphs etc, 1t from of the families
who held this Office to the royal O'Donnes for some
hundreds of years that three of the four masters
sprang.
The foundations of this family of the OClerys as
ollamhs of Tyrconnell has touch of romance about
it, The OClerys descended from one of tho
kings of Connaught and originally belonged to dis
trict in that province called Hy Fiachrach which is
comprised within the limits of the present diocese of
Kilmacduagh. In the thirteenth century they were
dispossessed by the De Burgos and other Norman adj
yenurers, and forced to migrate, in the direc
ton of Kilkenny, others northwards TO Tyrawley and
others to Breffni OReilly.i i
About the year 1880 one the detachnient (which i
had settled in TTawley, young of much learn