The Irish standard., 1911-09-02
CARDINAL PATRICK
FRANCIS MORAN
Was a Man of Great Parts and in
Touch With All Human Inter-
ests Everywhere.
Noted Prelate Was Born in 1880,
in Leighlinbridge, County
Carlow, ireland
Two Great Catholic Congresses Were
Held in Australia Under His
Presidency.

The vast new Commonwealth of
Australia lost it's real head when the
brave old Archbishop of Sydney, Car
dinal Patrick Francis Moran, died on
August 16, suddenly at the age Of
eighty-one, says the Irish World of
August 26.
Mourning for him will be general
throughout Christendom for he was
a man of great parts and in touch
with all human interests everywhere
but the mourning for him will be very
particular and deep all through Aus
tralia, with whose phenomenal Cath
olic progress he has been identified so
largely since he went to Sydney as it's
Archbishop in 1884 and was soon ap-
pointed it's first Cardinal.
Patrick Francis Moran was born in
1880 in Leighlinbridge, County Car
low, Ireland. At twelve years of age
he was sent to Rome, to the Irish COL
lege, where his uncle, Rev. Paul Gull
len (the famous Cardinal Cullen after
wards), was rector. For twenty years
he lived in Rome as student, then as
priest, vice rector of the Irish COL
lege, and Professor of Hebrew in the
College of the Propaganda. His uncle
had meanwhile been made Archbishop
hof Armagh and later of Dublin and
W in 1,,o "
Father Moran went from Rome to
Dublin as his secretary
In 1872 the See of Ossory became
vacant and Father Moran was conse-
Grated to fill it and rule it as Bishop
of Ossory until 1884. In that year
Roger Vaughan, head of the Church
in Australia died and Bishop Moran
was sent by the Holy Father to take
his place as Primate Of Australia. His
story. Not only all Sydney, but the
people from hundreds of miles around
made it a holiday, and poured into
Sydney whose beautiful bay was alive
with color and motion and every pos
slble expression of gladness. A fleet
of boats went down the bay to meet
the Archbshops boat and vast pro-
cession on land escorted him, with ev-
cry manifestation Of joy, to his Cath
edral.
Ills singular luck of winning peo-
pies hearts had preceded him as it
were. Shortly after he wes called to
Rome and created Cardinal and the
enthusiastic first welcome to him was
repeated and exceeded.
1t was a picture of a Church tri-
umphant that but fifty years before
was in direct poverty and suffering.
The whole story OF Australia that
almost in our own day, grew from a
despised and dreaded, faraway "hell"
for the victims of English misgovern-
ment in Ireland to proud and pros
porous saf-governed commonwealth.
is story of Catholic progress un-
matched anywhere in history ancient
or modern.
The new Commonwealth of Austria
liza, the great Island Continent, covers
almost three million square miles of
territory and yet has not many more
than four million people scattered over
this vast area. They are Of course
mostly concentrated in a few great
cities.
Spanish and Portuguese navigators
explored the coasts Of Australia early
in 1880, and later Dutch settlers gave
it the name Of New Holland. But
Captain Cook drove stakes there still
later, and Van Dieman's Land, an Is
land to the south of the mainland, was
grabbed and claimed as English terri
tory. Here after the great rebellion in
Ireland in 1898 England began to de-
port the criminals" she manufactured
in Ireland wholesale. Transportation
was the common punishment for no
less than six hundred different "of-
fenses" against English law in Ire
land. The Colony of New South Wales
was officially established as a convict
settlement in 1885 and year later
"the first fleet" of 700 "convicts' were
landed at a port now the noble city of
Sydney.