The Late Father Le Rennetel, Sydney

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXII, Issue 32, 11 August 1904, Page 5

The Late Father Le Rennetel, Sydney

In addition to the pailitulais telalive to the late ■\ciy Rev. Fathei Le Rennetel, S M , Sydney, which appealed m oui last issue, we take the. lollowing Hum the ' Fieeman's Journal —

Of Father Le Rennetel's benevolence the lecoid can never be written To him came the mentally distressed, the necessitous, the poor, and none came who went away uiuomforted In Ins confrcies he was singularly toitunate Chiet amongst them weie the Rex. Father Piquet and the Re\ . Fathei (Jinisty (the latter now at Villa Malta) 'We ne\ei had any difleiencc,' he used to sa\ , 'except when Fathei (innsty and Fathei Piquet wanted too unit h nionev lor the poor— they Siad not to pay the butcher's and the bakei's bills at ' theend of the month ' That was his genial way of making light of the seivice whiih the pool had e\ei teceived at. his hands No gteatei testimony io his gteac benevolonec could be gi\en than the mouining <j! the thousand-, who deploie his death as that ot a dearest mend or kind father. Fiom the \ery beginning of Ins last illness messages of sympathy pouted m from all pails-, from priest and la} man, from pielate and private citizen and public man

Fathei Le Rennctel, on hu tim to Europe a tew years ago, saw ior the last time Ins aged moihei, who was 77 yeai sof age Then, .is befoie, she wa-. unsigned to the pottini:, telling him to go whete bis duty to Cod had called, e\en as yeais before, when a lad ot nineteen, she bade him izn jorth ami light tor Ims countiy On his letuin he was gieeted with such enthusiasm as has seldom been seen, nuuiy non-Catholu s, among them Auhcleacon Lanulev, 'being "present: at Ihe meeting ol welcome Ills sihei nilnlee was anothe; occasion ot c ongiat ulat ion and ie|ouin< r , ihe vuieiable Bishop Muiiav, ol Mtiitlaiid, jneaclnng the paneov. i ie, in which he iccalled the gieat woik ot Father Le Rennrtcl, and of the Mansts since their athent m I SS7, Father Poupincl. Fathei Heu/e Fattier \ionniei, among olheis At the jubilee celebiation it was stated Ihat no loss a sum than £10,000 had been paid uiuv on the church and other buildings of the patish, which included St Joseph's Providence. Cumberland sheet

At the meeting of the Diocesan Conference at SI Mary's Piesbyteiy, his Eminence the Catdmal made teferonce to the lamented death of the \eiv Re\ Father Le Rennetel. His Imminence held up the late pastor of St. Patrick's as a pattern of imitation for the body of the clergy and a model pneM beloved by all his fellowpriests, and respected by all the people, " Protestant and Catholic alike Tlis EmineiTc lnnnediatclv adioutned the Council out of tesoect to the memoiy of deceased.

After the Reuuicm Alass at St Patrick's Chuith, a I which his Eminence Cardinal Mot an piesided, the fuivMal left for the \\a\eiley Cemeteiy, where the lnteiniem took place.