Society of African Missions

New Zealand Tablet, 20 August 1908, Page 33

Society of African Missions

On his way from Rome to Ireland (June- 19) the Most Rev. "-> Dr. Kelly, Coadjutor-Archbishop'" of Sydney, interrupted h's -■ journey at Lyons (France), where he was the guest of the Right Rev. Bishop Pellet, Superior-General of the Society of African Missions, Recently represented in the Archdiocese of Wellington by Very Rev. Father O'Sullivan, S.M.A. His Grace (writes an esteemed Lyons correspondent) was received at the railway station by Father O'Sullivan, who' had just returned from his Australasian lecture tour. During his stay in the city the Archbishop, accompanied by Father O'Sullivan, visited his Eminence the "Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, the Shrine and the new Basilica of our Lady of Fourviere, Ahe Museum and the Central Bureau of the Propagation of the Faith Society, etc: Before his departure from the seminary his Grace received the Irish students in his room, and addressed them some excellent words of advice and encouragement on their preparation for the mission of selfsacrificing charity that awaited their accomplishment among the heathens of West Africa. The Superior-General took occasion to express to his distinguished guest liis deepest sense of gratitude for the generous welcome which Father O'Sullivan had received from his Eminence Cardinal Moran, his Coadjutor-Archbishop, and from the Australian Episcopate, and for the sympathy and support which his mission had received throughout Australasia.