A L'OCCASION DES NOCES D'OR DE MGR O'REILLY

Mer Bernard O'Reilly will celebrate on September 9 his golden jubilee, having been ordained priest by Archbishop Signay at Nicolet, Canada, just after schoolmate Cardinal Taschereau was ordained on September $&, 142, Mer O’Reïlly is to be present in Quebec at Cardinal Tascherëèau’s golden jubilee on August 23, returning immediately thereafter to celebrate his own golden jubilec here,

Mer O'Reilly's distinguished place in the Catholic Church, his eminence as a writer and preacher and his long and earnest work in behalf of Treland’'s cause make the occasion of his jubilee one of special interest to Catholeand Trish Americans, and preparations are making for celebrating it in the Cathedral of New York Qn the date named and several other churches,

En the mectinge just held in Quebec of the bishops of the Quebec Province it was unanimously agreed upon to pétition the Pope to bestow on Mgr O’Reilly the dignity of prothonotary apostolie, the highest rank in the Roman prelacy, in recognition of the great services rendered by this prelate to Canada from 1842 to 1849, when he was

transferred by his superiors to New York, The petition of

the Canadian Cardinal and bishops has been cordially supported by the Archbishop of New York.

The jubilee services at the Cathedral of New York on

September 9 for Mer O'Reilly's fiftieth anniversary of

his ordination will be of an imposing description and will be attended by à large number of leading representatives of the Catholic Church here and in Canada.

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