DEATH OF FATHER BARRY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 252, 18 July 1919, Page 5

DEATH OF FATHER BARRY

4 The Rev. Father Walter Barry, C.SS.It., diecl 011 Wednesday morning at the Redemptorisfc Monaster}', Hawker Street. For' three years and a half Father Barry had been suffering from acute heart disease, though the tnought of sudden death did not detract from his geniality. On December 28, 1916, Father Barry celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the priesthood. Born .in Wexford, Ireland, in 1842, lie entored the great ecclesiastical college of Maynootli in 18G1; but, owing to the urgent demand for priests, ho was recalled and ordained at St. Peter's College, Wexford, by the late Dr. Furlong. For many years he worked as a secular priest in his native dloceso of Ferns, but. in 1876 entered the Redemptorist Mission, and was professed a member of the congregation on September 8, 1877. During the forty years that Father Barry spent in the' Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, his lifo was ono of strenuous activity, most of his laboius, being in the Old Country, where ho devoted himself to the reformation and salvation- of many who were victims of circumstances and surroundings in the densely populated districts of England and Scotland. In 1894 Father Barry was sent, at his own desire, to Australia to devoto his energies to assisting tlio emigrant Irish of tlio South Seas. Several times Father Barry has been rector of Redemptorist communities, and to have known him was to liavo admired him for his brilliant conversational powers arid his knowledge of men and events, together with a charming personality which the advance of years only intensified and embellished.