The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1904-11-19
The Irish Martyrs.

| In the course of an interview with
| a representative of the Dublin Evening
Telegraph, in reference to the canon
ization of Irish martyrs, his grace the
archbishop of Dublin said the proceed
ings now in progress in the diocesan
| court are, in the present stage, strict
ly private, and, though there is no Sc
cret as to the nature of the procedure,
! the evidence that is being given. or has
| been given, must be kept a matter of
! absolute secrecy until the diocesan in
quiry is definitely closed. Every wit
ness examined is bound himself to state
| anything that may have come within
| his knowledge regarding case of mar
tyrdom, whether it goes to establish
the case or to weaken or disprove it.
Asked whether the secrecy of the
proceedings covered the names Of the
martyrs or the number of cases that
are being inquired into, his grace an
swered that as to this there is no Sc
cret whatever, and he referred to
published list in the Irish Ecclecias-
tical Record" for January, 1903, in
which $50 to 300 cases were mentioned,
with which at that time it was pro-
posed to deal.
In reference to. the question, "Those
all come from the time of the persecu-
tion under Henry VIII and Elizabeth"
his grace remarked that the Cromwell
lian persecution claimed many victims.
There were others of later date. The
list included names from all parts Of
Ireland-north, south, east and west
Armagh, Dublin, Cashel, Tuam, Cork,
Drogheda, Limerick, Derry and so on
persons of every rank in life-clergy
and laity; bishops and priests; the
clergy, secular and regular; men and
women; some of noble birth and high
station; others of humber social
grades. Names were struck out of the
list published in January, 1903, and
names were also added. "The list now
before the diocesan court Includes"
added his grace, names from all parts
of Ireland" In some cases the victims
of persecution suffered death in Dublin,
as, for instance, DeTmot O'Hurley, the
archbishop of Cashel, and the Francis
can, Cornelius O'Devany, bishop of
Down and Connor. As illustrating the
general character of the list, his grace
mentioned that amongst the names
placed on what is known as the title
of the case, are the following: DermOt
O'Hurley, archbishop of Cashel; Cor
nelius ODevany, bishop of Down and
Connor; Maurice Kenraghty, a secular
priest of the diocese Of Limerick; Ar
Dominican order, and Sir John Burke,
or De Burgo of Brittas.
In further conversation his grace |
said the case of Oliver Plunkett was
not before them at all, and also ex-
planned that Oliver Plunkett was
put to death at Tyburn in London and |
hence it was competent for the arch |
bishop of Westminster to hold the COR |
dinary' process, socalled because it is |
conducted by the bishop or ordinary"
of the diocese. conducted by him per- |
sonally, or by his direction and author |
ity. In Oliver Plunkett's case the cor |
binary" process was gone through, and |
many years ago, and the |
added: 1.-THE apostolic |
process, then, in Oliver Plunkett's case |
is to be dealt with, not in London, but |
in Armagh. 1t took twelve years, then |
that is, from 1874 to 1SS6-to get that |
case brought up to the point at which
the holding of the apostolic process /
was possible. As such matters go, that |
was considered expeditions. So you can
see that we are long way off from
the apostolic process in the hundreds |
of cases that have been put in charge
Of. and that are being dealt with now"
His grace, having referred to the
enormous mass of evidence to be OBJ
tained, stated that in addition to the
sixty. sessions held in Dublin, twelve
sessions had been held in Sydney for
the purpose of taking, by commissions,
the evidence of his Eminencea Cardinal
Moran, to whom, for his interest in the
case Of the Irish Martyrs, his grace
paid "a very high tribute, saying: at
IS not too much to say that if it were
not for Cardinal Moran's untiring zeal
n the matter, the present proceedings
would, in all probability, never have
been set on foot at all, at least notin
OUR time"