OBITUARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2126, 22 October 1885, Page 2

OBITUARY.

A New York cablegram announces the death of the Cardinal Archbishop of New York. John M'Closkey, Cardinal Priest of the Holy Roman Church, fifth Bishop and second Archbishop of New York, was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 20,1810. He received his early classical training at New York, subsequently entered Mount St, Mary's College, Emmetsbury, Maryland, and after graduation persued his theological studies in the seminary connected with that college. He was ordained priest in St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, in January 1834. Soon after this he went to Rome, and for two years attended the lectures in the Roman College, On his return to New York he

was appointed assistant pastor, and six months later pastor of the Church of St Joseph, New York, which office he occupied for six years, except one year (1841), during which lie was first president of St, John's College, nearFordham, New York, In 1844 he was consecrated coadjutor of the Eight Rev. John Hughes, D.D., then Bishop, and subsequently Archbishop, of New York, and in September, 1847, on the creation of the new diocese of Albany, was installed aB its Bishop.. He remained in charge of tliis diocese for seventeen years, administering its affairs with signal ability, establishing many new congregations, erecting a magnificent cathedral at Albany, and many other now churches in the diocese, as well as hospitals, asylums, and schools, and introducing numerous new religious communities. On the death of Archbishop Hughes, Bishop M'Closkey was transferred to the vacant see by a pontifical brief bearing date MayC, 1864, and was inaugurated on the 20th of August in the same year. He was raised to the dignity of Cardinal Priest by Pope Pius IX., March 15,1875. The " title" assigned to him was Sank Maria sopra Minerva. Pope Leo Xjgt' conferred the Bed Hat on**srdinal M'Closkey in the Consistory'- held on March 28,1878. One of his first acts after liis installiit : on in the archiepiscopal see of New York was the opening of the new Provincial Seminary of St. Joseph, in a very large and commodious building purchased for the purpose by his predecessor. This seminary has accommodation for 180 students. The Cardinal has been very active in promoting the interests of the Chuich throughout the see, having established protectories fordestitut© children, a foundling asylum, an institution for deaf and dumb girls, a home for aged women, a German Hospital, an asylum for poor old men, and another for poor old women, Many new churches have also been built, and others are in process of erection ; and he has actively pushed forward and completed the work upon the new Cathedral of St Patrick, on Fifth Avenue, in New York, the finost architectural site in the city. This cathedral was commenced by the late Archbishop Hughes, and is of white marble. Towards this His Eminence has contributed 10,000dol from his own purse,' and to procure further aid for it he visited Rome in 1874. He has introduced into the diocese several religious orders which had previously no houses there. Among these are the Capucins, the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Sisters of the poor of St Francis, the Sisters of the Third Order of St Francis, and the Little Sisters of the Poor,—" Men of the Times,"