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Show j DEATH OF CANON O'HANLON Author of "The Lives of the Irish Saints." Peacefully as a child going to rest has just passed away the great Irish hagiologist, John Canon O'Hanlon, parish par-ish priest of Sandymount, County Dublin, Dub-lin, siays the Dublin Freeman of May 16. Thousands of ;riests and laymen all over the-world will learn wih almost al-most a personal sorrow of the demise of the gentle and gifted pastor of the Star of the Sea church, whose literary labors for fifty-six years have compelled com-pelled the highest encomiums even from the cautious Bollandistts. To others it is given to recount the saintly life and labors of a hard-working Irish priest in his sacerdotal capacity; our duty is merely to outline his literary lit-erary career. No more zealous minister min-ister of religion ever labored in the cure of souls committed to his charge than did the venerable Canon O'Hanlon, O'Han-lon, who has now entered into his reward. re-ward. Born over eighty years ago. Nation O Hanlon was a veritable storehouse of nrchaelogieal lore, especially of everything appertaining to the history of Queen's county. As a boy he listened list-ened with rapture to Daniel O'Con-nell, O'Con-nell, speaking at the Great Hearth Maryborough, in JR3S, and he was "resent at the public banquet given to the Liberator at Stradballv. in the large mill of Richard Leadbetler on the evening of that memorable day I"Leeto reca11 the Political ballads or 1S36-1840. written aprooos of Sir Henry Brooke Parnell (author of the "History of the Penal Laws"), who wa created Lord Congleton in 1841- and he often spoke of the fast disappearing folk tunes sung and played f in the Queen's county in the pre-famine period. pe-riod. The future ecclesiastical historian of Ireland whoever he may be must forever for-ever feel indebted for the material ready i to his hand to the good priest whom we all mourn today, and whose labors i for half a century have resulted in I placing at his disnosnl a mno dition on the acts of the Irish saints In the successful completion of such a work apart from his many virtues as a priest and patriot the name of John Canon O'Hanlon will be for all 'time m benediction. R. I. P. The Pilot. |