CARDINAL MORAN

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 47, 17 August 1911, Page 5

CARDINAL MORAN

DEATH FROM HEART FAILURE. DISTINGUISHED CHURCHMAN EXPIRES SUDDENLY. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright, Received 16, 5 p.m. Sydney, August 16. Last night Cardinal Moran was in the city in connection with church matters and returned to Manly. He retired as usual, and was not again seen until a personal attendant entered his room at 9 o'clock in the morning, and found his body lying across the bed. The Cardinal had evidently got out of bed during the night and thrown a cloak over his shoulders. It is surmised he had a sudden seizure and fell back and died. On Sunday the Cardinal had opened a new presbytery at Chatswood and delivered a vigorous speech, although he had been ailing. Received 16, 8.30 p.m. Cardinal Moran's death from heart failure was due to a sudden violent attack of diarrhoea. The medical attendant was not informed of the illness, as the Cardinal did not regard it as serious. The body will lie in state for several days.

His Eminence Patrick Francis, third Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney since March 24, 1884, was the first Australian Cardinal appointed, July 27, 1885. He was born at Leighlinbridge Co. Carlow, Ireland, September 16, 183-0, and was the son of Patrick Moran and Alicia Cullen. He was educated at the Irish College of St. Agatha fit Rome. He was ordained by special dispensation as to age. March 19, 1853, vice-president of the Irish College and professor Hebrew College of Propaganda, returned to Ireland us private secretary to his uncle, Cardinal Cullen, who became Archbishop of Dublin in 1850, and first Irish Cardinal in 1880, professor of Hebrew and Scripture at Cionliffe College, Dublin, and Bishop of Ossory 1872-84. His late Eminence arrived in Sydney in September, 1884, and subsequently visited Rome in 1888, 1893, 1898, 1902 and 1903. He presided at the first Plenary Council of the Roman Catholic Church in Australasia at Sydney in 1885, and also at the second and third Councils in 1895 and 1905. During his residence in Borne he made a special study of Celtic ecclesiastical history in the archives of early Irish and British churches, and was one of the world's leading authorities on antiquarian research. He has been a busy writer, and his works include "Most Rev. Primate and Martyr, Oliver Plunkett," "History of the Catholic Archbishops of Dublin," "Historical Sketch of the Persecutions, etc., under Cromwell and the Puritans," "Acta S. Brendane," "Monasticum Hibernicum," "Spicilegium Ossoriense," "Irish Saints in Great Britain," "The Pastoral Letters of Cardinal Cullen," "Occasional Papers," "Letters on the Anglican Reformation," "History of the Catholic Church in Australasia," "Reunion of Christendom and its Critics/' "Discovery of Australia by De Quiros fn 1<10<5," "The Divine Credentials of the Catholic Church," and many other notable and authoritative works. The late Cardinal was remarkable for the vigor and conviction of his method, a brilliant logician, and a powerful orator. He has identified himself with every movement that had for its object the good of the people of Australasia and the advance of the church lie led.