DEATH OF CARDINAL BARNABO.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume II, Issue 55, 16 May 1874, Page 10

DEATH OF CARDINAL BARNABO.

Jimp is ft ing ha.-l.lj with the Sacred College. Only the other day the now curdmal Tarqumi passed a«ay. Cardinnl Antonelli is in a pr. carious slate of h ulth, and jwterday the death .8 recorded of one of the mo*t illustrious prelates of the age, Cardinal B.inmbo. Ills Ji. ..in n^e was a member of a noble Italian family, »n<l Lid attained at the time of his death the npe age of sevenly-thiee 1» 1846 the Pone p.esei.t.dl.un with a Red Hat, and shortly afterwards he was anpointed Cardmd Prefect of .he Propaganda. In tins capacity the poHtion nf the Cardinal was one of the most oneions and mo-t important in the Church. The great institution of the Gong.^.-ition of the Propagandas we m-ed scarcely M y, charged with the interests of Catholicity m mi^sioivry countries," as ili«tni S ui-hi«.l f.-oit " Catholic emntncß, tuch as Prance. Spain Austria, Ac. The Coiwr" B »ition man.jies the affiiu-B ot tens of millions of Catholics in Northern Europe in America, v, Asia, and in Afiim. Ireland is not a "missionary county, she has a " national Churcli," but, for purposes of economy aid com. n<»nrc her affairs, are managed through the Con<rre<Mtion of •he Propaganda. We need sesm-ely say that the duty of pre-idin«r o\ep_a.i msiiiution with fuiu-lions »f sU ch ore- whelmitur nu^.itittle anil i.i.poitai.co is confided to one of the first men among the P.w.ces ftttheCiKinh Inpisi >e ars the po>t has been held b\ tiio "re.it JUez/olm.li , Miid OttiMu.al Carnabo ,iioved lum», If wortl.V ofao ilhisiwusttpnderi.vT JTis z«il. leaned ability, and unti.iii^ mdii,ir V 1 aye oeen .ong ivnowned, and lu> wa- cqim ]y co . p cu.n.s for vwl\ lad pentlpni^s of dr-ncmor. ]„ |„s death the Church has sustain,-,! nhe.v, 1«, a,, and I,m lunin, nre v, I bo none more regretied vhan by the prelates of Inland. One by one the Princes of the Church an- \A.m.;, out sml ton.-i, unb.nt t)ie auyusfc form of hi.n on wlion' dauntless hemfc andnvn f.ume fhe s, 10rt8 o f o^htyt^o winter-, au 1 the sorrows ot i mart) •■ pontificate appear to have hud no cIT. ct