Canonisation

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 14, 2 April 1903, Page 10

Canonisation

Reuter's agent at Rome, writing on February 3, says : — The canonisation of the Venerable Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, who was executed at Tyburn on July 1, 168 L, and whose remains are interred in the Benedictine College of Downside at Bath, has recently been discussed as though it were imminent. This assumption is scarcely correct. Steps for the beatification were first taken in 1886, and in 1898, on the application of the Postulator, the case of Archbishop *Plunkett was separated from that of 60 others also executed in 1681. In July last the Congregation of Rites sent instructions to Dublin for an inquiry on the spot into the writings of the executed prelate and the heroism of his virtues. The case has gone no further. Nothing has vet been received from Dublin by the Congregation of Rites, and it may consequently be taken as certain that the Congregation will not deal with the case this year.