PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

New Zealand Tablet, 31 March 1921, Page 31

PEOPLE WE HEAR ABOUT

Just as the last mail left, the death was announced of Right Rev. Mgr. Provost Lynch, who presided at Dr. Mannix’s Harrogate meeting, as reported in the Tablet for February 17. Provost Lynch was born in Kerry 70 years ago, and was educated at Maynooth. Most of his ecclesiastical career was spent in the Salford diocese. He was at one time rector of Farnsworth, and later of .1 Inline, Manchester. He was appointed a Canon of Salford in 1903, Provost in 1912, and a Domestic Prelate to the Holy Father in 1915. Provost Lynch was also a member of the Manchester School Board. Rev. Father John B. do Valles, to whose memory a tablet is to be erected in the Massachusetts State House, died on May 12, 1920, at St. Luke’s Hospital, New Bedford, U.S.A., within an hour after receiving news that the Congressional Medal of Honor had been conferred on him. lie was awarded also the Croix do Guerre.and the Distinguished Service Cross. His death was attributed to the effects of being gassed. For DO three days and nights at Apremont lie carried wounded from the firing line to the emergency hospital, and to avoid dropping the stretcher from sheer exhaustion he tied the handles to his wrists with wire. The Very Rev. Father P. J. Keane, pastor of St. Francis do Sales’ Church, Oakland, California, whom the Pope has appointed Coadjutor to Dr. Grace, Bishop of Sacramento, is a native of Kerry, Ireland. One of his brothers is a parish priest of Valentia. Co. Kerry, and another is a Jesuit at Milltown Park, Dublin. The new Coadjutor-Bishop was ordained 25 years ago in Carlow College, and afterwards pursued his studies in the Catholic "University of America. Distinguished as preacher and administrator, he is now in his 50th yea . Strange as it may seem, for the first time since 1871, Austria now has a Catholic Premier, Dr. Michael Mayr has been selected for this post bv the Christian Socialists, who secured the majority at the recent elections. Dr. Mayr was born in Upper Austria in, 1864, and made his studies under the Benedictines. lie is a university professor, a practising Catholic, and always was a staunch defender of the Church and her interests. He is the author of several historical books, and collaborated with Dr. Ludwig Pastor, in his great work, The History of the Popes. Father John Burke, of the Redemptorists, who is so well known and beloved everywhere in South Africa, and also in Australia and New Zealand, has been celebrating his golden jubilee as a priest. The celebration took place at the Redemptorist Church in Clapham, London. Miss Mary Gibbons, sister of Cardinal Gibbons, died at New Orleans last December, at the age of 94 years. She had been a parishioner of St. Joseph’s parish for 70 years. Simple funeral services, in keepmg with a family tradition, were held. In addition to Cardinal Gibbons, the deceased is survived by another brother, with whom she resided. Most Rev. Dr. Whiteside, Archbishop of Liverpool, has just died at his residence in Liverpool, after a very short illness. The late Archbishop, who had been feeling weak and tired for the past two weeks began to say his usual daily Mass in his private chapel on Tuesday morning (says a Catholic News Service message under date February 5), and had just finished ieadmg the Epistle when he was taken suddenly ill, and had to be led from the chapel to his room. Medical aid was at once called, but cerebral hemorrhage enr c V a ? d after some periods of unconsciousness the Archbishop passed away on the Friday following Arch bishop Whiteside was born in Lancashire in 1857 and was educated at St. Edward’s College, Liverpool at Ushaw and at the English College- in’ Rome.’ After his ordination in 1885 he became a Professor at 8t Joseph’s College, Upholland, and subsequently VicefhTSe „f a ß7 n m‘; ' I’ 1 1894 ’ when 119 " ,as » f the age of 37, Dr. Whiteside was consecrated Bishop

by the late Cardinal Vaughan, and appointed to the important See of Liverpool, of which he became first Archbishop when the diocese was raised to Metropolitan rank by Pope Pius X. The late Archbishop was specially devoted to the cause of the poor of his diocese, among whom are many thousands of Irish workers. He was also instrumental in erecting a considerable number of small churches, preferring to undertake this rather than the erection of a cathedral. The funeral Mass for the deceased Archbishop was celebrated in the pro-Cathedral at Liverpool by Cardinal Bourne, and the burial took place at the Ford Cemetery. By the death of the. Archbishop four of the six Catholic Archbishoprics in Great Britain are now vacant. Cardinal Bourne and the Scottish Archbishop of St. Andrews are now the sole surviving Metropolitans in the entire kingdom. Father Charles Plater, the well-known Jesuit and sociologist, recently passed away suddenly in Malta. Father Charles Dominic Plater was born in 1875, and received his early education at the Jesuit College at Stonyhurst. Ho proceeded to Oxford, where he gained high academic distinction. After his ordination in 1910 ho was appointed Professor of Psychology at Stonyhurst, and later was transferred to the Jesuit College at Wimbledon. In 1916 Father Plater was appointed Rector of Campion Hall, the Jesuit house of studies in the University of Oxford. As a co-founder of the Catholic Social Guild, the late Jesuit was an absorbed student of social and Labor questions, and among his many activities was the organisation of study clubs for social science among young working men. Suffering from overwork, Father Plater came to Malta shortly before last Christmas for his health. But even during this period of convalescence his activities were not abated, and almost one of the last acts of his life was the formation of the Unione Leonine, a Maltese Catholic Social Guild. The funeral, which took place in Valetta, was conducted by the Archbishop of Malta, Dr. and attended by the Lord Chief Justice of Malta, the heads of the various Government .departments, and representatives of the Labor societies and social workers. Father Plater was the author of several works on social science, among them being Catholic Social 1 York in , German;/, The Tried and\Social Action. He was also a great promoter of the movement for retreats for laymen, on which his Retreats for the People is one of the most informative works on this movement. He was also editor of Catholic SolTiers and The Qatholic Social Tear Booh.