DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 33, 13 August 1903, Page 18

DIOCESE OF DUNEDIN

thP Sf p P m source we learn that the health of rt r,n gg + h ReV - Mgr - Mackay was ver y unsatisfactory during the greater part of has trip Home. On arriving tL%T n < ° f Wn h ? T br ? ke his journe ? t0 Scotland by visitSi fait ma-lTft ° f Killarney ' where he was when

v + £ a A Pn A outeru ter received h7h 7 us from the Very Rev Father A. A. Cherner pastor of the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Winnipeg, mention is made of a brief visit by the Right Rev. Mgr. Mackay, who, unforunately, was not able to prolong his stay so as to take advantage of the Rev. Father Cherrier's offer to , R ni?Tn»!!?ri P ° mtS ° f m th<J Cl^ and SUttOUndnig, cuuiiLry.

We have rece ved from the Rev D. P Bucklev a souvenir of his ordination to the priesthood in the Later An Basilica, Rome, by his Eminence Cardinal Respighi on June 6, and of his first Mass offered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Perpetual Succor, St. Alphonsus', ol June Father Buckley amvedin Sydney last wee*, and is expected in Dunedin in a few days t Sojfmn Pontifical High Mass was celebrated in St Joseph's Cathedral on Sunday in thanksgiving for the election of the new Pontiff, Pope Pius X His Lord ship Bishop Verdon was celebrant, Rev. Father Clearv assistant priest, Rev. Father Murphy deacon, and Rev vi the th H?H ?T ar n sub '? eacon - At the conclusion of the Mass the Te Deum ' was sung. The Rev. Father Murphy referred to the character and ability of tie new Pontiff, who, he said, would prove a worthy successor of the great Pontiff Leo XIII y successor The members of the South Dunedin Catholic Literary and Social Club had a rare treat on Monday evening when his Lordship Bishop Verdon delivered an illustrated lecture on 'Rome,' in the course of which he cave a description of the Vatican palace. His Lordshfp's remarks were rendered most interesting from the fact that owing to his long residence in the Eternal City he snoke fiorn personal knowledge of, and intimate acquaintance with his subject. His Lordship also gave portraits of the late and the new Pope. The lecture was greatly enloyed by the audience. Last night in St Joseph's Hall his Lordship gave a fine series of views of Rome to an audience composed of the Ladies' Club and the memb)rs of the women's Confraternities of the Cathedral parish