The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-19
STRONG SUPERSEDED
IN MEXICO CITY POST

and. having beer stationed for n num-
Der OF years at Tangier, was appoint
ed by his government to advise the
lister OF Foreign Affairs. on the subject
OF Moorish matters. during the inter-
national conference at Aigeciras. at
which Henry White represented the
United States.
Sir Lionel Garden. tho new British
enNo- in Mexico, is married to a
brooklyn girl, who was Miss Anne
ELIZA Lenerts, OF Flatbush, n. Y All
his consular and diplomatic service
has been on this side OF the Atlantic.
and he has spent some fifteen years
IN Mexico City, as British consul
there. Flo, TOO. halls from Ireland.
and is nephew of that John Garden.
OF Tipperary. who was popularity
known as Woodcock Garden, owing to
the number of times that he had been
fired at by discontented tenants on
his Barnane estates
President Poincare, on the occasion
Of his Inauguration of the museum
at Versailles of the war of 187O-lST1
took occasion to bestow upon Mgr.
Giber. the bishop OF Versailles both
the medal of the war OF 1870 and the
Cross of the Legion of Honor. as
tardy recognition of the services which
the prelate had rendered as soldier
on the battlefields of the Franco-Ger-
man conflict. The Roman Catholic
Church draws many recruits from tho
commissioned ranks of the army and
navy, and no one can forget that Pope
Plus TX. was gallant cavalry officer
before entering holy orders. Mgr. de
VEINS. who died as bishop of the
French town Of Agen. attained as
Count de Vesins. the rank of colonel
of Cuirassiers, before becoming a mem
Der Of the clergy and a bishop was
wont to occasionally attend entertain
ments with lis three soldier sons,
which startled people ignorant OF his
antecedents. who knew that celibacy
was exacted of the Roman Catholic
clergy, but who were ignorant of the
fact that he had been a regimental
commander, and was a widower
Cardinal Howard. who was arch
priest of the Basilica of st. Peter at
Rome during the pontihcate OF Plus
H.. and who was the most gigantic
and at the same time handsome prince
OF the church who has ever occupied
seat In the Sacred College, had been
captain OF Queen Victoria's regiment
Of Horse Guards before taking the
vows of priesthood. Dean Perrin, of
the Cathedral Of Besancon, was n cap
tain OF Franc-tireurS in the war of
1870, and so, too. was Mgr. de Lgonnes
bishop OF Rodes; while Mgr. Augouard
vicar apostolic of the French Congo,
served in that same struggle in the
ranks OF the Zouaves, under the late
General Baron de Charetto, receiving
a severe wound on the battlefield of
Loigny
l could mention scores more, but
will content myself with placing on
record the names of that grand old
Abbo de Parabere. n Crimean veteran,
who. after having been n major, be-
came military chaplain, and used to
be known By his soldiers as the
"Kalif du Bon Dieu": and the Able
Crei ,du, rector of the Parish of Nice,
as such known to many American Ro-
man Catholics who winter in the RI
viera, and who wears on his breast the
Cross Of the Legion OF Honor, won at
the age OF nineteen as a sublieutenant
on the battlefield of Champigny, and
who retired with the rank of colonel
at the ago Of forty. to become n
priest.
Copyright. 1918, by the Brentwood
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