Evening star., 1924-11-19
sketch of Cardinals Career.


Archbishop of Armagh and Primate
of All Ireland. the successor of St.
Patrick" strove for Irish tranquil
lity and peace. The guerrilla tactics
of Sim Fein sympathizers and the re-
priSals of the Black and TanS filed
him with horror and evoked strong
pastoral letters denouncing the crimes
which, in 1920 brought Ireland to
the verge of civil war.
Exhorting the people to prayer and
to avoid all associations leading to
crime and disaster, the cardinal, In
November of that year. charged that
''the activities of the British military
authorities are being carried into dis
tricts which hitherto have been
considered peaceful" He concluded:
God help our country, moaning un-
der this competition in murder" The
calamities in Ireland, he declared.
any living man.
Active Despite His Years.
Cardinal Logue was physically
small, with gray hair. ruddy face and
blue eyes and was vigorous and ener-
getic despite his eighty years. He de-
nounced the attempt on the life Of
Viscount French, Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland. in 1919, and said that the
shooting of the police was plain
critical he forbade political meetings.;
later he received a warning threaten
ing his life.
The cardinal paid a visit to the
United States in 1908, at the time of
the centenary celebration of the
founding of the Roman Catholic
archdiocese of New York. He cele-
brated pontifical mass in st. Patrick's
Cathedral in a $4,000 vestment and
later was the guest of President
Roosevelt, whom he greatly admired.
Before returning home he placed a
wreath on the tomb of Washington,
at Mount Vernon. He also met An
drew Carnegie and John D. Rookie
feller and in public statement
praised them for their philanthropies
Favors Standing BY England.
At the outbreak of the World War
Cardinal Logue said Irishmen would
stand by England" but later blamed
rest in Ireland. He opposed conscrip-
tion on the ground that 1t would
create grave disorder. When the war
was over and the Versailles treaty had
been concluded he declared "the
whole peace business is q game Of
grab" Although warning Sim Fem
ers and others to heed the law, the
cardinal declared Ireland was not
ruled by ordinary statutes. and, with
other Catholic clergymen, united in
urging freedom for that country. In
June. 1919. he presided at meeting
of the Catholic Hierarchy which
adopted a resolution demanding
home rule and in an address express
ed the hope that the Irish would
gain their Just rights without vio-
lence."
Born at Kilmacrenan. Ireland, on
October /, 1910, he studied at May
nooth and Durboyne, and upon gradu-
alton showed such scholarship that
he was appointed, although not yet a
priest, to the professorship of theol-
ogy and bellies letters In the Irish
College, Paris. Ordained in 1855, he
returned to his native diocese Of
Raphoe. in 1874. and was made a doc
tor Of divinity. Two years later
he became a dean OF Maynooth and
professor OF Gaelic, which position
he exchanged in 1878 for the chair
Of dogmatic and moral theology.
Attains to Btshopric.
On July 20, 1879. at the age Of 80,
he was consecrated Bishop Of Raphoe,
and for eight years labored among
the people Of Donegal, who at that
time were impoverished by failure
of the. crops. In one year he col
iected for the relief Of the people of
his diocese nearly $15e.ooo. and in
1887 the parish priests Of Armagh
chose him aa coadjutor to their VEN
erable primate. position to- which
he soon after succeeded. Pope Leo
XIII. in 1893, elevating him to the
cardinalate.
It was an event that flled Armagh
with pride. for 1t was . dignity never
before attained by even the greatest
Of 114 primates, going back to the
days OF st. Patrick. The Cathedral
OF Armagh. under his administration.
was ENLARGED In 1897 by the addition
~8 the synod hall, northeast Of the