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Cardinal Taschereau, archbishop of Quebec, whose sacerdotal jubilee has been drawing throngs of the faithful to Quebec,belongs to one of the most distinguished families in French Canada. His Eminence Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau, was born at Sainte-Marie de la Beauce on the 17th of February 1820, and is a son of the late Hon. Thomas Taschereau, à judge of the King's Bench, who died in 1832, his grandfather having been the Hon. Gabriel-Elzear Taschereau, a member of the old Legislative assembly of the pre-union period. His mother was à daughéer of the Hon. Jean-Antoine Panct, speaker of the first assembly of this province, In 1836, after pursuing courses of study at both the seminaries of Quebec, the future Archbishop and Cardinal visited Rome, in company with the late Abbé Iolmes, and in the following vear received the tonsure from the hands of Mgr Piatti in the Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Returning to Canada, he resumed his studies and on the 10th of September 1842, was ordained priest in the church of his native village, Mgr Turgeon, his destined predecessor in the See of Quebec, being the officiant. During theterrible ship fever, Father Taschereau Was among the most active of the Quebec clergy in releving the distress, sparing himself, in the presence of the scourge, neïîther toils nor perils He has been successively professor of theology in the Seminary, director of the Petit-Séminaire, and of the Grand-Séminaire, vieur-general of the archdiocese, rector of Laval university and secretary to Mer Baillargeon, on whose

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death he was consccrated as his successor, Nince his first visit he has been many times in Rome, and on the last occasion, 1887, was received into the Sacred College. The rejoicings on his return, in which the Protestant population of the province heartily shared, are still fresh in the publie mind, and with like heartiness now will his fellow-citizens of a different creed wish Is Eminence many happy and useful vears.—{(Gatette de Montréal, 23 août.)

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AI Canada, and more particularly all old French Canada, is preparing to celebrate on x scale of unusual religious splendor the golden sacerdotal jubilee of the venerable Cardinal Taschereau Archbishop of Quebec, on Monday and Tuesdar.

The French Canadians feel justly proud of this the first prelate in British North America honored with the Roman purple, and as his jubilee is the first occasion when an American Cardinal has celebrated à similar anniversary the bishops and arehbishops of the United States and Canada are marking it as à special event

which will be attended by more than orlinary ceremo-

uials in the Catholie Church.

All the Canadian Church dignitaries Wii be present in the Basiliea of Notre-Dame in Quebec on Tuesday, the 234 inst., at nine o’clock, when pontifical mass will be celebrated in à most imposing manner and ju he presence of probably one of the most distinguished gatherings of the kind that has been witnessed in America, AIT the Canadian bishops will be present, and from the United

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States there will be a large representation, including Cardinal Gibbons, from Baltimore, Archbishop Corrigan and Right Rev. Bernard O Reilly, D. D., from New

York, andthe prominent bishops ofthe country generally.

Cardinal Taschereau’s prominence in Canadian cireles does not rest alone on his labors in the Church, but ax well through the standing that he has as belonging to

one of the best old Canadian families, and the splendid

efforts he has successfully made in the cause of'education and advancement of deserving publie movements,

More than one of his ancestors acquired fame as the pioneers and discoverers of the great Northwestern territories, and Mgr Taschereau himself had à chiet part, with the late Louis-Jacques Casault, in founding the Laval University at Quebec, so called from the first Bishop of Canada, and to day the first Catholie institution of learning in the country. On these accounts and his sterling merits as à public spirited man, his jubilee Will be attended by à publie procession in Quebec on Monday, in which members of the Legislature, judiciary and publie functionaries will take part, as well as the church prelates and citizens.

The national feast of the French Canadians is that of John the Baptist on June 24: but in order to celebrate it more solemnly in Quebec and to add to the interest of the jubilee of the Cardinal it has been deferred until next Mondav. On Tuesday will be the religious celebration of the jubilee in the Metropolitan Church, followed in the evening by a publie banquet.

The whole affur promises to be an extraordinary ocea-

sion, and one of the greatest chureh solemnities seen in Canada. (Ver York Herald Au 20 août.)

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