PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 12 June 1919, Page 33

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

The Bishop of 'Salford-; Right Rev.-Dr.- Casartelli, has been' admitted an honorary member of the Royal Asiatic Society. The honor is an uncommon |one, and in granting it the society specified a desire of expressing sympathy with the University of Louvain. Dr. Casartelli is a former Professor of Zend and Pehlevi at Louvain. He; is now lecturer on Iranian . languages in the Universityj of Manchester. - • .

■ At the last 1 meeting of the Adelaide (S.A.) University Council : Rev. .Brother Part on, - M.A., of _ths Chris! Brothers’ College staff, was appointed lecturer in logic for the remainder of the year. During his own course at the University Brother Pux-ton. was the Roby Fletcher Scholar in psychology and logic, lie fills the place of Professor Mitchell, Vice-Chancellor of the University, who has left on a visit to Europe. Brother Purton has received many congratulations on the compliment paid him by the University.

V,;L The Christian Brothers in Ireland have recently sustained a great loss by the death of the Rev. Brother Joseph: Butler, late Superior of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Cabra, and manager of the Artane Industrial School from 1890 to 1909. lie was born at Callan in 1840, and had had a. long and distinguished career with the; Christian Brothers. lie was sent to Kingstown after completing his training, and after some years was appointed Superior in P’ermov. and lately filled a similar position at A thy. In 1880 the members «of his congregation elected him as Assistant to the Superior-General,_in . which office he remained for ten years. During his term he- visited not only all the houses of the institute in Ireland, but also all the houses of the Congregation in India and Australia. In 1890 he was appointed Superior of Artane Industrial School. a position he resigned 19 years later, following which came his transfer to Cabra, where he labored for nine years, until his retirement a year ago.

1 j. The ' y arth -West Ifrrinr (Winnipeg) says;—The ceremony of congratulating ; tlxe oldest priest in Christendom was .an important epoch in Catholic Church circles on Sunday, •: March ; 23, in St. Boniface. Rev. Father Damase Dandurand, 0.M.1., who celebrated his 100th birthday on Sunday, received early in the morning a cable from Pope Benedict XV., congratulating hixxx on the . occasion and blessing him. Four ax'chbislxops, two bishops, . 130 priests, and 3000 people were present at the celebrations, which ixxcluded a Mass celebrated by the centenarian, followed by a banquet. Father Dandux'axxd’s experience of life as he related it in replying to congratulations, is worth givixxg : — “I have had, a great deal of experience, travelled much and seen xnaxxy people. A small group of these strove for hoxxors, but they were not happy ; another large group strove for riches, but they were not satisfied and wanted more and more ; a still larger, far larger group, strove for pleasure, and they were neither f satisfied nor happy. There were still hexgroups scattered here and there that were not intent on these things, blit loved God and strove to do their duty; these were the only ones that felt happy and looked;-well. - ■ , - vp

■-’tOn'y'November' 1 of the present year,; his Lordship Right Rev. Hr. Gallagher, Bishop of Gouiburn, will celebrate his golden’jubilee. -Fie was ordained oxx November 1, 1869, in Mayxxooth, by the Right Rev. Dr. Lanigan, late Bishop of Goulburxx, and came to Australia the ' following year. The presexxt Bishop df - Goulburxx ?andj th - late Father Slattery, of Gouiburn, were the first Mayxxooth students ever ordained form ! foreign r mission. Dr. Gallagher was born ixx Castled erg, where he received his early'! education. Then he wexxt to the seminary ixx Monaghan, whex'e he was associated .with, the late Cardinal Farley. From there he wexxt to Mayxxooth, where he was associated with Cardinal Logue and the late Archbishop Carr, Archbishop Fexx-

nelly,j and Father Michael Murphy, of Marlborough, Ireland. A few years ago he visited Cardinal , Farley at New York, and they talked over the early ; scenes of their youth. On that occasion, Cardinal Farley : made him a present- of a pectoral cross and ring, which were given to Cardinal Farley himself by his predecessor,. Archbishop Corrigan, and .. his Lordship wears those i emblem's to-day. Dr' Gallagher’s career in Australia is too well known to need recapitulation; 1 Dr. Gallagher is a profound classical scholar. The late Dr. Badham, the first Professor of Classics at the Sydney University, said that Dr. Gallagher was the finest Greek scholar south of the line. Suffice to say he is greatly revered and admired, especially by the poorer classes, for there is no more ardent champion of democracy in all Australia than the venerable Bishop of Gouiburn. We are officially informed (says the London Catholic Times of April 5) that his Holiness the Pope has appointed the Rev. Donald Martin, Adm., the' ProCathedi'al, Oban, to the vacant See of Argyll and the Isles. The new Bishop is a native of the Westexm. Highlands, having been born at Ardnaxxxurchan in 1873. lie entered the Scots College, Valladolid, in 1899, and was ordained in 1905. His first appointment was to Castlebay, Barra, but most of his priestly career has been spent at Oban, where he has won the esteem of all sections of the community. He is a fluent Gaelic speaker, and this, of course, lias enhanced his popularity in a district where the ancient language of the Gael is still widely spoken. The ancient See of the Isles is said to have been founded about the year 447 bv St. Patrick, who appointed Gexunaixus as its fix'st Bishop. The See of Argyll is of much more recent origin, having been cut out of the diocese of Dunkeld about 1200. Both Sees were vacant from about the year 1553 until 1878, when the Right Rev. Angus MacDonald was appointed Bishop of the united dioceses, lie was succeeded by the Right Rev. Geox'ge Smith, who died in January of last year. - Prior to his death, the Rev. Hugh Cameron, who was then serving with the Forces, had been nominated Auxiliary Bishop by the Holy See, but with charactexustic modesty he successfully appealed to the Pope to be relieved from this high honor. Since the death 'of Bishop Smith the duties of the diocese have been performed by the Right Rev.' Mgr. Alexander Mackintosh, Vicar-Capitular, Fort William. In a later issue the Catholic Times savs: The Right Rev. Donald Max-tin, the new Bishop of Argyll and the Isles, made his first public appeax*ance since his appointment, to the episcopacy at a meeting in ooxxxxection with, the election of the new Education Authority, which was held in the Free Chux'ch

Hall, Oban. Provost Black px'esided. and the platforxxx party ixx eluded his Lordship the Bishop, a xxuxnber of Protestant clergymen, and other promixxexxt local people. The chairman, referring to the appoixxtnxexxt of Bishop Max-tin to the. See of Argyll and the Isles, said that a more popular selection could not have been made.”