The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1914-02-07
THE cRozIER OF cAsHEL


Bishop Fogarty, on occasion of Conse-
Grafton of Archbishop Harty.
The following extract is from the
sermon of most Rev. DR.. Fogarty,
Bishop of Killaloe, delivered at the
Cathedral of the Assumption, Thurles,
when Rev. DR.. Harry was consecrated
Archbishop of Cashel.
Speaking of the new archbishop. DR..
Fogarty said:
mo wonder, therefore, that Holy
Church before placing the tongue.
famed mitre on the head of your new
archbishop, has pondered long and
carefully on his aptitude and DISPOSE
tion, and measured his character by
the high standard sketched in Holy
Writ for the Pontifical office-'Holy,
innocent, undefiled, separated from
Sinners and though ever mindful of
human weakness, and of the difficult
ties, social and religious, which begin
to gather like clouds in Holy Ireland's
sky, she gives him to you now, in the
prime of his vigour, with confidence
that he will realize the expectations
of his exalted Office and worthily fulfill
them. Sprung from yourselves, you
know the blood that runs in his veins.
Divine Providence that makes it's cal
culations in the silence of eternity,
and sees the end in the beginning en-
lowed him with gifts of mind and
character which distinguished him
among his fellows; and blessed his
soul, while still child, with light and
grace, in preparation for the call that
came to him like Samuel in the night,
and placed him on the altar, "a faithful
priest of Cod And then, still stead.
lily pursuing, but not yet declaring it's
high Interior ends, installed him a pro-
fessor of theology in the College of
Maynooth-that unrivalled institution,
great mother of Irelands famous
priesthood and of many mitres-
where his hand was schooled and
strengthened to carry honorably the
historic crozier of Cashel that is placed
in it today.
"And, ah! there is in that crozier of
Cashel history to inspire and incite
the young archbishop to noble efforts
for God and for Ireland. Long has it
ruled from the city of the Kings over
a royal minded people that never knew
slavery, and whose generous hearts, as
much as the fertility of the soil, have
won for the land they inhabit the en-
able title of the golden vein of gal
liant Tipperary.' Saints in the persons
of Albert and Ailbe have sanctified it;
martyrs, like Dermot O'Hurley, have
set rubies IN it, the brightest that ever
adorned croZier-rubies made of their
own red blood. Princes and scholars
have borne it, and great lovers of their
country and champions of the people
from Cornac MacCullinan to him of
our own day, the illustrious DR.. Coke,
whose providential appearance at re-
cent critical moment, and fearless elo-
quence, emancipated the Irish farmer
and perhaps saved the Irish church
from possibly disastrous mistake.
And now it has just passed from the
hands of one of the noblest figures
that ever grasped it, the Most Rever-
end Thomas Fennelly, whose retire.
ment, through failing health, is the one
cloud that hangs over the joyful func-
lions of today. Long will his people
inconsolably lament him. Like Saul,
he stood head and shoulders above the
general crowd, and big was the heart
that warmed not only its own breast,
but the hearts of all who came in touch
with him. Noble-minded, large.heart-
ed, eloquent, able, and generous, he
was to his people prince as we'll as