REV. JAMES MORE O'FERRALL, S.M.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 45, 25 November 1925, Page 33

REV. JAMES MORE O'FERRALL, S.M.

On Monday, November 23, a telegram from the Very Rev. Dean Regnanlt, S.M., announced the death of Father James More 0 Ferrall, S.M., of Otaki. Deceased was a son of the late Edward More O’Ferrall, of Lisard, Co. Longford, Ireland. His mother was Juliana. Margaret Lambert, fourth daughter of Henry Lambert, M.P., J.P., D.L., of Oarnagh, Co. Wexford. Gerald More O’Ferrall, Lisard, is a brother of deceased. Mrs. Charles O’Connor, Merrion Avenue, and Mrs. Lambert, Booterstown Avenue, Blackrock, are sisters. Madam the O’Connor Don was a first cousin of his father’s, and other relatives have intermarried with noble Italian families. Father James More O’FerraU was as staunch an Irishman as his ancestry ■suggests. Coming of a ' grand old Catholic family it was only natural that to the priesthood he , should have brought the strong, simple, faith and the burning zeal characteristic of Irish missionaries. He taught at St; Patrick’s College, Wellington, with remarkable success, until his health made a change advisable. Since then he labored zealously for souls both in Tim am and Otaki, where he was beloved by the people. His death, in the prime of manhood, will be a great loss - , not only to bis brethren of the Society of Mary, but to the Church in New Zealand. To his superiors in Wellington and to his relatives in Ireland, we offer our cordial sympathy —■ R.T.P. ' •■■•■■■