UN ARTICLE DEC MERCURY DE QUÉBE

No 483 UN ARTICLE DU * MERCURY ? DE QUÉBEC

Our [rish Catholie Friends are justis proud that one of their race figurcd in thefront rank of the distinguished clergymen ofhigh degrec, who surrounded Ts Eminenc Cardinal Taschereau on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his ordination to the priesthoo:

We allude to à gentleman who was well-known to thx people of St, Patrick’ who still remember the late pastor Father MeMahon, to whose zeal and exertions thes are indebted for the erection of the sacred edifi

where this generation were baptized, and where most o1 then have heard the reuyniem mass celebrated over the remains of their parent Ü saw the last sad funcral rites perfoi ne, before tli V wel Bud to rest in the old cemetery near the St. Bridoct'< A vlum. Of tho who saw the Right Reverend Bernard OReillr, Father Me

Mahons vicaire of nearly a half a centurv ago, there are

probe [ FGW sUrVIVOrSs, » the vençeration Of to-UHav, \Lerr {Y Reil S passage al Quebec s the sonvenir of

omething learned in infaney and almost forgotten, but to them he is known as the author of à lite of Pius IX. published before the death of that ceelebrated Pontiff and later on of a lite of Leo XITT, the present tlustrious wearer of the Roman Tiaru. who himselt correcte the proofs of the worl LLe 13 also, 1f we remember well, th: writer of the article on the Jesuits in a later eneveloedia published some vears ago in the United States, Mer B. O’Reillv is well known not only to the Irish Catholies of Quebec, but to his countrymen allover t}

world, as an able writer and speaker, and his presence:

here, and the part he took in the festivities as a repre-