OBITUARY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1138, 23 August 1883, Page 3

OBITUARY.

ARCHBISHOP VAUGHAN. London, Aug. 20. Archbishop Vaughan, of Sydney, was found dead in bed on Sunday morning, at the residence ot Mr Weld, at Bluendell, near Liverpool. Herbert Vaughan, Bishop of Salford, was the first to find his brother (Archbishop Vaughan) dead. The Archbishop complained of being unwell during the voyage from America to Liverpool. Melbourne, Aug, 20. The Catholics of this colony express universal regret at the death oi Archbishop Vaughan, and mourning is worn by many members of the Roman Church, Sydney, Aug, 21. Universal sorrow is expressed throughout the Australian Colonics at the announcement of the death of Archbishop Vaughan. All the Australian Bishops have been invited to assii t at a celebration of the Requiem for the deceased prelate. Men of the Time says of the deceased prelate Vaughan, the Most Rev. Roger Bede, second son of Colonel Vaughan, born January 9. 1834, at Courtfield, near Boss Herefordshire, was educated at Downside College, near Bath, and at Rome. He became a Clerk Regular of the Benedictine Order, was appointed Piofesior of

Mental Philosophy at the Benedictine Gymnasium of St. Michael, near Belmont, Hereford, in 1861; and the year alter was appointed principal of the same Priory of St Michael, under the title of Cathedral Prior of Newport and Menevia. Having been nominated by the Pope Coadjutor, Archbishop of Sydney, Australia, with the title of Archbishop of Naziauzus, i.p.i., he was consecrated by the present Cardinal Archbishop of Westminister in the Church of Saint Vincent do Paul, Liverpool. March 19th, 1873. He succeeded to the Archbishopric of Sydney March 16th, 1877, on the death of Archbishop Folding. Archbishop Vaughan, who is an eloquent and powerful preacher, has acquired a high literary reputation by his ‘Life and Labours of S. Thomas of Aquin,' (in two vols) 1871-2. He has also published • Views on Catholic Education ;’ ‘Ecclesia Christi, Words spoken at the opening of the second session of the Fourth Provincial Council of Westminster,’ 1873; ‘ Higher Education,’ 1874; * Oration on O’Connell,’ delivered on the occasion of the Centenary, 1876; 'Advent Con ferenoes,’ 1876 ; ‘ Hidden Springs, or Perils of the Future and How to Meet them,’ 1876 ; ‘ Lenten Exercises,’ 1877 ; ‘ Pius IX and the Revolution,’ 1877. He has contributed to various Catholic periodicals. FATHER BURKE. We gather from the Home papers received by the last mail that the Very Rev T. N. Burke, 0.P., died on Monday the 3rd of July last, in the convent of his order in Tallaght. He was born in Galway on the 10th of September, 1830, and was therefore 53 years of age when he died. Father Burke was the moat distinguished preacher of the day. A few years ago when he visited America, he was pronounced by the American Press and some of the leading men of that country to be the greatest living pulpit orator. At the age of 17 ho was sent to Rome, where ho studied for some time, after which he was received as a novice into the Order of St Dominic in Perugia. After five years study at Rome and Perugia he returned to England, where the order of priesthood was conferred on him. He remained four years in the mission house at Gloucestershire after which he returned to Dublin and joined the house of his order there. Very soon his remarkable gift of oratory made itself felt, and ever since 1859 he has been a distinguished preacher, and has been invariably cbosen to preach charity sermons and conduct retreats for priests. On Sunday the 29th May, 1864, he assisted in laying the foundation stone of the very convent at Tallaght in which he died, and shortly afterwards was removed by hie superiors to Rome where ho was appointed superior of St Clements. He succeeded Cardinal Manning as preacher in the church of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, where he remained five years. He then returned to Ireland, and devoted himself piinclpally to preaching charily sermons, and in 1871 ho visited all the houses of bis order iu America. He created quite a sensation in America, and the way he showed up Mr Fronde's falsification of Irish history, made that gentleman quit the country altogether. In 1873 when he returned he was appointed prior of the convent of Tallaght, but he still continued preaching, lecturing, and travelling about the country as usual. He had promised to preach a charity sermon in Dublin, in aid of the starving children of Donegal on the Sunday before his death, but when the day came he was lying on a sick bed enduring torturing pains from a malady that had periodically afflicted him for the previous four years. He insisted on keeping his engagement, and got himself assisted into the pulpit, where he preached a powerful sermon. A week afterwards he was dead.