THE VERY REV. DEAN MAHONEY, NELSON.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 17, 23 April 1903, Page 19

THE VERY REV. DEAN MA HONEY, NELSON.

It is with no ordinary feelings of regret we have to record the death of the Very Rev. Dean Mahoney, S.M., late pustor of Nelson, who pasted to his eternal reward in Dublin on Easter Sunday. The news of the sad event came in a cable message from the Very Key. Dr. Watters, R.M., to the Yen. Archdeacon Devoy, S.M., Provincial, Wellington. The late Dean Mahoney was born in 1848 in County Limerick,, Ireland. He commenced his education in the famous Trappist Monastery, Mount Mellary Abbey, Waterford, and, alter a few years there, in 1866 he joined the Marist Fathers Scholasticate College in Dundalk, and finished his theological course in the scholavSticate connected with the Catholic University Schools, Dublin, in 1872. After his Ordination to the priesthood he was professor in the college at Dundalk for two years. In 1874 Archbishop Redwood was consecrated Bishop of Wellington, and as he wanted missionaries for his diocese, the late Dean Mahoney, with several other priests, volunteeied to come with him. Father Mahoney landed in Wellington in 3 875, and was immediately sent to Nelson as assistant-priest to the Venerable Archpriest Garin. After the latter's death, several years ago, the deceased became parish priest, a position

which he held to the time of his death. "Dean Mahonev : resided in Nelson ior 27 years. He worked mSSaSfih' for the salvation of those Committed to his caxeViTßtf" has left many monuments to perpetuate his a^orar;; amongst others, a beautiful church and the fine propeW and buildings known as the Stoke Orphanage. He S his venerable predecessor worked hard for the orphans;-, Mo m i^ wfnl^f hai w is + heart and soul wele »n.that work,,^ He left Wellington about a year ago on a voyage tojthe Old Country in order to recruit his health/ KTfcfereMino doubt that the worry and trouble caused by thejper*^ secutwn of the Marist Brothers in charge of the- Stoke ! Orphanage was responsible for his illness, as up to tfflftp time he enjoyed excellent health. All through his {fines* : he was attended by his old friend, the Very Rev Dr Watteis It had been his great desire prior to his death that he might be spared to see Nelson once again and die there, but Divine Providence willed it otherwise, and his remains now lie in the churchyard of his native pctriSll ."" — XV. A • jT •