HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

New Zealand Tablet, 8 May 1913, Page 27

HONOR TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —In St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Auckland, there is a large array of mural tablets. These memorials are read with much interest by visitors to this fine and devotional temple. They remind the living of the virtues of the dead and also elicit charitable prayers for their final repose.

; But it strikes visitors as very odd and equally strange that Dr. Croke and Dr. Steins, prelates' of high renown, are totally forgotten in the matter of memorials in St. Patrick's. Dr. T. W. Croke did splendid work for three years in the diocese of Auck-

land, prior to his becoming Archbishop of Cashel; and Dr. Walter Steins, J S.J., labored strenuously for two years in the diocese until - age " and infirmity compelled him to resign. :.. ..-..'-

And surely Monsignor Walter McDonald and his brother, Dr. James McDonald, should be commemorated in St. Patrick's. Dr. McDonald was Vicar-General at one time and he devoted many .years to the Maori mission, almost; single-handed, for the whole province of Auckland. •■- The good and brave Doctor died, in harness with his beloved Natives. And as for Monsignor McDonald, he was indeed a ; conspicuous ; figure at St. Patrick's for many a long year in the capacity of Administrator. He will be ever remembered with much affection by all who knew him. Is it too much to ask that those distinguished ecclesiastics should have their tablets in St. Patrick's That this brief reminder will. effect the desired result and satisfy; the friends of the departed lam fully confident. The Catholics of Auckland are generous and whole-hearted. They will make good the defect and remove a reproach. —I am, etc.,' ; .-.. ?■-■ r /-% . ■•■■' ■■■■-■--:•-'.:

Anxious.

April 17, 1913.

[We understand that there is m the Cathedral a large and costly stained glass window to deceased bishops and priests, and also mural tablets to Bishop Luck and Father Walter McDonald— N.Z.T.]