Death of Cardinal Vaughan

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 26, 25 June 1903, Page 18

Death of Cardinal Vaughan

The report of the death of his Eminence Caidinal Vaughan, Archbishop of Westminster, which was recened on Sunday evening, was not wholly unexpected, as it was known that he was seiiously ill fo,r some time, and latterly the cable news led us to understand that there were little hopes oi his reco\c i iy

The late Cardinal Herbei t Vaughan, who came of a Levitical family, which gave se\eial members to the priesthood and religious Orders, was the eldest son of the late Lieutenant-colonel \aughan. He was bom at Gloucester m April, 1832, and received his education at Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, on the Continent, and in Rome, where he enteied the Academia del \olnli Ecclesiastici. lie was oidamed a -^y^est <it Lucca on October '28, 1851, and, lutuming to England, joined the Oblates of St. Charles, a congregation ol seculai pi lests founded at 15a>swater by the lale Cardinal Manning From the Oblates he was sent to St Edmund's College, near Ware, of which he was a jce-pi esident until 18(52 He went in 1803 to Amei ica m order to gather muds for founding a Missionary College In 18<i9 he founded St Joseph's Foreign Missionaiv College, Mill Hill, Middlesex, of which he was Pi esident-Gener al up to the tune of his death It is in this noted College that priests are tiained loi the iUaoi i missions in the diocese of Auckland Towards the close ol the jcar 1871 he accompanied to Mar\laml the first detachment of priests who were sent fiom that institution on a special mission to the colored population of the United States On the death of Bishop Turner he w T as elected Bishop of Salford, and was consecrated on October 28, 1872 It will interest our readers in the Christchurch diocese to learn that the Right Rev. Dr. Grimes was the

first bishop, consecrated by the deceased prelate. At Salford Bishop Vaughan published a series of pastoral letters, and identified himself prominently with the crusade against intemperance, the rescue work among children, and the cause of commercial education, in the interests of which he built St. Bede's College. On March 29, 1892, he was elected by the Pope, and on the recommendation of the Propaganda, to the See of Westminster, left vacant toy the death of Cardinal Manning. He was summoned to Rome in January, 1893, to be created a Cardinal, and was received with great distinction during his stay. Cardinal Vaughan acquired a considerable reputation as a preacher, and published several pamphlets. He was "the proprietor of the London ' Tablet,' and of the ' Dublin Review.' A speech of his, in which he dwelt upon the validity of Anglican Orders, led to a long controversy in the ' Times ' and other papers during the autumn of 1894. In September, 1897, on the occasion of the Catholic celebration of the thirteenth centenary of the landing of St. Augustine and his monks at Ebbsfleet, England, Cardinal Vaughan delivered an important address at the C.ranville Hall, Ramsgate, in which he reviewed the growth of Christianity in England, and the position of the Catholic Church in that country at the time. This was m reply to the proposition of the Lambeth Conference (Anglican) which emphasized ' the Divine purpose of visible unity among Christians as a fact of revelation.'

The Vaughan family of Courtfield, of which Colonel Vaughan, brother of the deceased prelate, is the principal lay representative, is one of the oldest and most distinguished in England, and closely connected with the Weld-Jllundells, another old Catholic family, and also the Petres, ol whom Mr F. \V. Fetre, architect, Dunedin, is a member. The late Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Rev. Roger William Bede Vaughan, 6.5.8., was a younger brother of the late Cardinal, being two years his junior. He was appointed Coadjutor to Archbishop Folding of Sydney in 1873, and succeeded, to the See on the death of the latter in 1877. After an episcopate of six years Dr. Vaughan left Sydney on a visit to the old country and died suddenly of heart disease two weeks after his arrival in England. Another brother is the distinguished Jesuit preacher, Rev. Father Bernard Vaughan. So is the well-known theological writer, Monsignor J. S. Vaughan. Another brother is the Very Rev. Father Kenelm Vaughan, who has just concluded an extended tour in South America, soliciting funds for the completion of the Spanish Chapel in the "West minster Cathedral The late Prior Jerome Vaughan, who died in 189fi, was also a brother. Several sisters became nuns An uncle had been Bishop of Plymouth for half a century. He died in October of last vca i' at the age of R9 years Some time ago the late Cardinal applied for an assistant, and in the early part of this year his request was acceded to by the appointment of the Tlight Rev. l)r Stanley, a former college companion of the editor of this paper, as Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster. The deceased Cardinal was a worthy successor of the Lite Cardinal Manning of happy memory. He was a man of indefatigable zeal, foremost in cwvy good work, strenuous in the cause of education and charity. de\oted to t ho spread of Catholic literature, a .sitong and constant supporter of the Catholic Truth Soe>ef\ and socially a great power in the land. His loss vi ill I.c trivallv felt by the Catholic Church in England and taken all in all, his place will not be easy to fill May his soul rest in peace