A TRAGICAL MARRIAGE.

Thames Star, Volume x, Issue 3182, 1 May 1879, Page 1

A TRAGICAL MARRIAGE.

Undoubtedly deatined to be long me» morable upon the calendar of New York weddings, was the union of Charles M. Brennan, nephew to the late Sheriff Brennan, to Mist Meeta Peetsch, at the Church of St. Francis Xavieron Wednesday, the 12th inst. As the groom wai a son of Commissioner Owen Brennan, great-preparations had been made to give eclat to his nuptuals, the church was crowded by an immense assemblage. As Mr Brennan had, moreover, been a graduate of St. Francis Xavier College and a favorite pupil of the Bey. Father Pelletier of the Jesuits and rector of the

collegiate institution, that distinguished priest consented not only to celebrate the marriage, but to address lome congratulatory remarks preliminary to the ceremony. While closing this initial address, standing at the foot of the altar with his hand extended in the act of benediction, the roice of Father Pelletier faltered and he fell suddenly agairfst the sanctuary railings. The marriage party and audience remained in happy ignorance as to the cause of the priest's unexpected illness, while he was being borne quickly to the Testry, whence Father Merrick shortly after made his appearance, and prefacing some observations reassuring the congregation, resumed the celebration of the marriage ceremony. Amid the 'joyous strains of the organ's peals, the bridal party passed out of the church followed by an admiring throng, little aware that in toe inner chamber lay, clad in his sacredotal robes, the lifeless form of the death* stricken celebrant. Father Pelletier had died of heart, disease, a death he ,had anticipated for some time back. A> Canadian by birth, an accomplished scholar and able executive officer, this representative Jesuit had come to this city five years rince to assume direction of their representative college.