A L'OCCASION DES NOCES D'OR DE MUR OREILELY

Mer Bernard OReïlly will celebrate on September 9 his golden jubilee, having been ordained priest bv Archbishop Nignay at Nicolet, Canada, just after schoolmate Cardinal Taschereau was ordained on September K, L842. Mer ORellyis to be present in Quebec at Cardinal Tascherèau’s golden jubilee on August 25, returnino

in diatelv theroatter to celebrate his own golden jubilee

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Mer ORollys distinguished place in the Catholic Church, his eminence as à writer and preacher and his longe and rnest rk in behalf of Treland's cause make the sion Of his jubilee one of special interest

to Cathol'e and Irish Americans, and prepx tions are making for celebrating it in the Cathedral of New York nu the date named and several other churches,

In the mecot to just held in Quebec of the bishops ot

the Quebce Province it was unanimouslv a

4 greed upon to peti i the Pope to bestow on Mer O’Reilly the dignit of prothonotary apostolie, the highest rank in the Roman prelucv, in recognition of the great services rendered b\ 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 cordiallr support “| by the Archbishop of New York.

The jubilee services at the Cathedral of New York on September 9 for Mer ORolly’s fiftieth anniversary ot his ordination Will be of an imposing description and will be attended by a large number of leading representatives of the Catholic Church here and in Canada,

( N.- }. Herald.)