Obituary

Right Rev. Mgr. Tournier
A lengthy illness, which compelled him, recently, to resign all active duty, has ended in the death of the Right Rev. Mgr. Louis Joseph Tournier, D.D, who in 1932 became Bishop of Coimbatore, India.
Dr. Tournier was born at Buc, near Belfort, France, in 1887, and made his studies in his native country at Luxeuil and at the Paris seminary of the Foreign Missionary Society. In 1912, not long after his ordination, he went out to Coimbatore to work on the mission, and among his other duties had the direction of the industrial school and the orphan asylum.
At the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Mgr. Tournier, as a French subject, was mobilized for duty in his own country. He returned to France, and during the war he was several times mentioned, for devoted service, in the ordre du jour. In 1918 he was captured by the Germans and sent to a prison camp in Germany, but by then the campaign was drawing to its close and so his captivity was happily not a long one.
In 1919 Mgr. Tournier went back to Coimbatore, of which diocese he was chosen as Bishop six years ago. Ill-health, however, so dogged his latter years that lately he felt obliged to lay down a burden which he was too weak to bear. He endured his long illness with fortitude and resignation.
Dom Dunstan Sibley, O.S.B.
We regret to announce the death in Hereford General Hospital on Friday, May 27, of Dom Dunstan Sibley, the oldest member of the Benedictine community of Belmont Abbey.
Arthur Fullerton Dunstan Sibley was born in 1862, the son of Major-General T. H. Sibley. He was educated at Charter house, and privately received into the Church at Bayswater in 1880; he was clothed as a Benedictine novice at Belmont in 1884. His ordination to the priesthood took place in 1891.
During the period 1897-1903 Dom Dunstan occupied the onerous and responsible position of Procurator of the International Benedictine College of St. Anselmo in Rome. In 1905, after returning to Belmont, he became a Resident Canon of the Chapter of Newport and took over the post of organist at Belmont.
During the European War he served as a Chaplain to the Forces in Egypt and Palestine. Between 1918 and 1936 Dom Dunstan was Chaplain to the Bridgettine Nuns of Syon Abbey, Devon, and to the Benedictine Dames of East Berglsolt Abbey, Colchester.
Since his return to Belmont in 1956, advancing years and enfeebled health compelled him to lead a life of semi-retirement. On Low Sunday a serious heart seizure left him in a very weakened state.
He received the Last Sacraments and began, in the calm, -•neethodical marmer characteristic of him, to make his immediate preparations for death. Complications set in, which necessitated his removal to hospital, where on Friday evening last another heart seizure proved fatal
Dom Dunstan was not only a priest of manifold scholarly attainments and an accomplished musician, he was moreover, and above all, a faithful son of St. Benedict. Monastic life meant more to him than anything else in this world.
Those who were privileged to know him at all intimately will mourn for a loyal friend, in whom a deep spiritual wisdom was associated with a remarkable alertness of mind, a wide knowledge of men and affairs, and a ready, but always kindly, sense of humour.
A Solemn Dirge was chanted at Belmont Abbey on Monday, May 30. On the following day High Mass of Requiem was sung prior to the interment in the monastic cemetery.
The Rev. Norbert Jones, C.R.L.
Members of the congregation of St. Mellitus, Tollington Park, N., when they Went to Mass on Ascension Day, heard with a shock of grief that Fr. Norbert Jones, C.R.L., their parish priest, had died on the previous evening. He had been forty-nine years a priest.
It was a death sudden and unexpected. Almost up till the end Fr. Jones had ministered in the parish as usual, and although he looked ill there was nothing to indicate that a crisis in his health was near. He was able to say Mass on the Tuesday, May 24, but later on that day it became necessary for him to enter the Hospital of SS. John and Elizabeth, where on Wednesday he collapsed and died.
Fr. Norbert Jones was born in London in 1865 and was ordained at Plymouth in 1889. He had served at Truro, Sidmouth. Bodmin and Eltham before taking charge of Tollington Park when it was founded by Cardinal Bourne in 1926.
Preceding the burial on Monday last a Requiem Mass was sung at the church of the Austin Canons in Womersley Road, Stroud Green, by the Prior of Christchurch, Eltham, Dom Isidore O'Leary, D.D., C.R.L., assisted by the Revs. P. Corr and W. Rowe. The Cardinal was represented by the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Evans, V.G.
Stroud Green had never known such a concourse as attended the ceremonies to show the affection and respect. The 206th North London Scouts, of which Fr. Jones was chaplain, assisted at the Sunday evening service and provided a guard for the bier throughout.