The Irish standard., 1918-02-23
Or. c. 0'Su||ivan Con
secrated Bishop Of Kerry

secTated Bishop Of Kerry
Recipient Of Many Addresses from
Public Bodies and Societies.
An Advocate Of Irish Freedom and
Nationhood-commends the Work
Of the Gaelic League and the Pres
ervation Of Gaelic Civilization.
BISHOP FoeARTY ALSO DELIVERS
ADDRESS.
Sunday, Oct. 10, in st. Mary's Ca
thedral. Killarney, the Most Rev. DR..
Charles O'Sullivan was solmenly con-
secrated Bishop of Ardfert and Agha-
doe. The ceremony was carried out
in the presence of a large congrega-
ton of clergy and laity. Special
trains brought contingents from Lis
towel, Tralee, Kenmare, and Millstreet.
Subsequently So addresses were pre-.
sented to his Lordship from Public
Boards, Christian and Presentation
Brothers, Teachers, Gaelic League
religious confraternities and Sodali-
ties Accompanying an address from
Tralee, where the new Bishop had
been, p. P. for ten years, was a hand
some money gift.
Ven. Archdeacon O'Leary, P. p.
v. G., Kenmare, read the Apostolic
Commission. The consecrating prel-
ate was the Most Rev. DR.. Harry, and
the assistant Bishops we're the Most
Rev. DR.. Cohalan and the Most Rev.
DR.. Hackett. The following Bishops
were also present: Most Rev. Dr.
Browne, Most Rev. DR.. Fogarty, Most
Rev. DR.. MacRory, Most Rev. DIR.
Mulhern, and Right Rev. Monsignor
Mailman.
Bishop Of kilIaloe.
.;Iost Rev. DR.. Fogarty, who was the
Bishop, assembled a throne so fortified
and decorated by the prayers and
good wishes of both priests and peo-
pie as the Most Rev. DR.. O'Sullivan.
Never in her history was the love of
her children for Ireland greater or
more exalted than it was today. Her
young people were no less conspicuous
for their love of country than for
their love of God "They are ready"
he said, ito die for Ireland at home
and with a piety on their lips which
makes us, their elders, ashamed of
our tepidity. Mammon, that great
corruptor of modern life, had not cor
rupted the hearts of the Bishops
flock. They preferred the Star of
Bethlehem to the golden favors of
Herod." Perhaps for that very reason
they had been spared, as this country
had been spared, significantly enough,
and almost alone in Europe, the wrath
that had come on Europe in this woe
full war.
New Bishop Speaks.
In his reply to the address from the
Chapter and priests of the diocese,
the new Bishop said that in their ad-
dress was glad to say there was
much that he could most heartily en-
dorse. They said of him that in &C.
cordance with the. spirit of Irish
priesthood generally, a spirit which
had never proved false to Ireland, the
welfare and the freedom of this dear
old land of theirs, the revival of their
native language, and the preserva-
ton of their national individuality, had
been with him objects second in i'm
portance only to the upper interests
of their holy faith; that was state
ment he could fully and cordially en-
dorse. His first care, of course, would
be the spiritual interest of the did,
cese, but the work of an Irish priest
or an Irish Bishop was not bounded
by the limits of the sanctuary.
Advocate Of Irish Freedom.
With whatever little ability he pos
sessed he had advocated in the past,
and he hoped he would advocate in
the future, and advocate fearlessly,
the claims of their motherland to the
greatest of all temporal blessings for
country or people-the blessings of
freedom and nationhood. Every le-
ultimate movement, every effort sane
toned by morality and religion to help
to advance and establish the claim
had ever had, and would never have,
friend in him. The Irish revival
movement had always had his earnest
sympathy and support.
That Identification of his life with
the supernatural which, as far as he
was aware, was nowhere else to be
found in the same degree; that spirit
opposed an insuperable obstacle to
the inroads and ravages of the mate
realistic attitude of mind which was
the root cause of the horrors that dis,
graced not only the Christian name,
but their common humanity through.
out the so-called civilized world today
A Deathless Spirit.
It was the same spirit which
through the centuries, unquenched and
unquenchable, had bravely and sue
cessfully battled against the imposi
ton on their race of alien standards