DEATH OF MGR. STONOR.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1419, 20 April 1912, Page 9

DEATH OF MGR. STONOR.

CHAPLAIN OF THE PONTIFICIAL ARMY.

Tho Rome correspondent of the "Tablet"' (London) writes: Tho death of Mgr. Stonor, Archbishop of Trobizond, has made a great void in tho English-speaking world of Home. Although eightv-one years old, he was until a few months ngo tho most familiar figure on all iho Roman occasions which drew 113 together, but to his friends it has been evident for tho last two or three years that ho was failing, and 0110 is not surprised now to learn that during that time artcrio-selerosis had been gradually undermining his powers. The. last t ! ine but one on which he wns seen in public was on the feast of St. Clement in November. On tho following day ho took to his bed. On February 1 ho felt well enough to tako a drive through the city, but on tho following morning ho had a heart-stroke, and was unconscious for several hours. Tho following evening he received the last sacraments, ami the special blessing of the Holy Father, and every morning thereafter, including that of his death, 'ho received Communion from Mgr. Prior, who celebrated mass in Ins room. Tho Archbishop remained conscious up to the last, sulVenng no pain, an-l passing away quietly as the cannon annouced noon from the Janiculum, while the rosary and the prayers for the dying were being recited by his confessor Father Boiiauni, S.J., Mgr. Trior, the parisli priest of Rant' Andrea della Vnlle, Father Dolan, Rector of San Silve.stro in Capile, tho Archbishop's caudatario, Don Pio Mazzotta, the two sisters of tho Little Compnnv of Mary (who nursed the deceased) ami Captain Rartle Toeling. Tho Uritish Consul in Rome, Mr. C. Morgan, was also with the Archbishop during tho morning. The Very Rev. Dr. Ke.ine, 0.1'., of Dublin, before commencing his sermon to an immense congregation in St. Silvestro, on the day following Mgr. Stouor's death, said "the spell of Rome'' was upon him; and, like many another of refined aspirations, he was drawn again bv the unrivalled holy memories of tho Eternal City to malco his abode here—for ever. To one sprung from an ancient Catholic stock there was vivid satisfaction in his appointment to I he covctwl post of chaplain to the Fonliiicdnl army, a chargo which brought to the young priest, in tho troubled times of forty-five years since, what ho deemed the honourable distinction of imprisonment for the cause so dear to every Catholic heart. From Pius JX of sainted menviry he received advancement to the dignity' of a Roman Prelate; a few years later'ho was assigned a stall in the venerable Chapter of the Lateran Basilica, anH in ISBS was contccrated Titular AMbtohop of Trebizond. J