SUR MGR O'REILLY

Our Trish Catholic Friends are justly proud that once of their race figured in the front rank of the distinguished clergymen ofhigh degree, who surrounded His Eminence Cardinal Taschereau on the occasion of the celcbration of the fiftieth anniversarv of his ordination to the priesthoo, We allude to à gentleman who was well-known to the people of St. Patrick’s, who still remember the late pastor Father MeMahon, to whose zeal and exertions they are indebted for the erection of the sacred edifice where this generation were baptized, and where most of tliem have heard the requiem mass celebrated over the remains of their parents and saw the last sad funeral rites performed, before they were laid to rest in the old cemetery near the St, Bridget’ Asvlum, Ofthose who saw the Right Reverend Bernard O’Reilly, Father Me. Mahons vicaire of nearly a half a century ago, there are probably few survivors. To the gencration of to-dav, Mer OReilly's passage at Quebec is the souvenir of something learned in infaney and almost forgotten, but to them he is known as the author of a life of Pius EX. published before the death of that celebrated Pontiff and later on of a life of Leo XITT, the present ilustrious wearer Of the Roman Tiara, who himself corrected the proots of the work. Ie is also, if we remember well, the writer of the article on the Jesuits in a later encyclopedia published some vears ago in the United Ktates, Mer B. O’Reilly is well known not only to the Irish Catholies of Quebec, but to his countrymen all over the world, as an able writer and speaker, and his presence here, and the part he took in the festivities as a repre-