OBITUARY

Cardinal Hayes
Sudden and unexpected death has bereaved the Archdiocese of New York, and has lost to the Church in the United States one of her most distinguished and widely-known prelates. When Cardinal Hayes went to bed last Saturday night, he appeared to be in his usual health. On the following morning he was found dead by his secretary, who had gone to his room to wake him. His Eminence was in his seventy-first year.
Patrick Joseph Hayes, of Irish stock, was born in New York and spent his life in work in that city and State. As a schoolboy he went to the De la Salle Institute, afterwards studying at Manhattan College and taking his degree. His ecclesiastical studies, begun in the Provincial Seminary at Troy, were continued, as a theologian, at the Catholic University at Washington. In 1892 he was made a priest.
Two years after his ordination, Patrick Hayes entered upon a long period of service under Mgr., afterwards Cardinal, John Farley, whom he was destined to succeed in the Archbishopric. His first parish work was at St. Gabriel's, New York; in 1895 he became Bishop's Secretary, a post which he held until 1903; subsequently he was appointed Diocesan Chancellor and first President of the Cathedral College. The dignity of Domestic Prelate was conferred upon him, in 1907, by Pius the Tenth.
In 1914, Cardinal Farley being then seventy-two, an assistant bishop was needed. The choice fell, almost naturally, upon Mgr. Hayes, who had been at the Archbishop's right-hand for twenty years. He was consecrated titular Bishop of Thagaste and appointed Auxiliary. During the next few years, from 1915, his pastorate was at St. Stephen's, New York. The world was then at war, and in 1917 Mgr. Hayes took up added duties as Chaplain Bishop to the Catholics of the United States military and naval forces. He was also a member of the National War Council.
Cardinal Farley died in September, 1918, to be succeeded, in the following year, by his Bishop Auxiliary, who was duly translated as Archbishop and Metropolitan. A further dignity awaited Dr. Hayes, that of his own elevation to the Sacred College, which took place in 1924. He was created Cardinal priest at the same time as his lifelong friend Cardinal Mundelein, the Archbishop of Chicago. Not very long afterwards, in 1926, he journeyed to the Middle West to assist, in Cardinal 1V1undelein's see, in the great functions of that year's Eucharistic Congress. His Eminence was a welcomed figure also, more recently, at the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin.
The late Cardinal, though of handsome and commanding presence, did not enjoy robust health. His labours, as administrator and preacher, were beginning to tell
upon him, and in turn he hienself was given an Auxiliary, in recent years, in the
person of Mgr. Stephen Donahue. His Eminence was not to any great extent a writer, but the Catholic Encyclopaedia holds several articles from his pen.
Many honours came to Cardinal Hayes in recognition.of his high qualities of heart and mind. He held the Grand Cross in the Orders of the Holy Sepulchre, the Knights of Malta, and St. Lazare of Jerusalem, was Knight Grand Officer of the Order of San Marino, and was an Officer of the Legion of Honour—a token of admiration from France.
The place which Cardinal Hayes will fill, in memory, in the annals of New York, is that of a devoted patriot and pastor who sought only to be a right guide to his people in matters of spiritual duty and social justice. A lover of and worker for the poor, he was militantly outspoken against subversive movements, Communism and the Like, which would exploit human need for their own ends.
Cardinal Camillo Laurent!
Three days only after the death of Cardinal Hayes the Sacred College has suffered another serious loss in the person of Cardinal Laurenti, Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, who died suddenly on Tuesday of a heart attack.
He died in the palace of the Papal Chancellery, where he lived, and the news Was immediately sent to His Holiness at Castel Gandolfo.
Mgr. Camillo Laurenti was born in the diocese or Frascati, November 20, 1861, was ordained in June, 1884, and was appointed Secretary of Propaganda, August, 1911.
Ten years later he was made a Cardinal Deacon, and in 1935 Cardinal Priest.
He was Papal Legate at Treviglio, near Milan, in 1922; at the Eucharistic Congresses in Sassari in 1923, and at Saralin 1924; and at the Congress of the Kingship of Christ at Milan in 1926.
In July, 1922, Cardinal Laurenti was appointed Prefect of the Sacred Congregation of Religious, and in 19'28 Sub-Prefect of the Congregation of Rites.
The Cardinal was an enthusiastic chem. pion of the White Fathers, the Missionary Sisters of Our Lady of Africa, the Society of African Misaions, Lyons, the Brothers of Charity, the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, and many other religious congsegations whose work was mainly in the mission field.
As senior Cardinal Deacon he invested the Archbishops of Bourges, Auch, Chapelle, and Madras with the pallium.
The address that Cardinal Laurenti made to the Press Congress held at Rome in April, 1926, made a great impression on his audience and was widely reported and acclaimed.
Very Rev. Canon Shepherd
In Canon Cyril Austin Shepherd, who died on Friday last at the age of seventyseven, the diocese of Brentwood loses fram its retired list a priest who in his active years was prominent in the see. The late Canon had been thirty years in the priesthood when the diocese was created by subdivision of the Westminster territory. He was appointed by Mgr. Ward as Diocesan Treasurer, a post which he continued to hold under the present Bishop until his retirement ten years ago.
Canon Shepherd was the son of Henry Austin Shepherd, M.A., Ph.D., and Sarah Mary Shepherd, née Roberts. For his education he went to St. Edmund's College, afterwards studying for the priesthood at the old St. Thomas's Seminary at Hammersmith. Following his ordination, in 1188,7, he returned to St. Edmund's as a rriait,e,r, teaching there for thirteen years. He lien took up parish work, serving at Warwick Street, W., at Chelmsford, and at Stock, Ingatestone.
From 1914 until 1924 Canon Shepherd was a member of the Chelmsford Board of Guardians, and he served for fourteen years, until his retirement, on the Essex
Education Committee. After relinquishing active duty he made his home, for a time, in the Isle of Wight, but later he settled at New Milford.
Rev. B. Wolferstan, M.C.
Wimbledon, Oxford, St, Helens (Lowe House) and Glasgow are among the Jesuit parishes associated with the work of the Rev. Bertram Wolferstan, Si., ME., whose death occurred at St. Helens on August 31. Fr. Wolferstan was a convert of many years' standing. He was for nearly twenty years in the Royal Navy, and it was wkiile stationed in British Guiana that he was received into the Church.
Giving up his naval career, Fr. Wolferstan studied for the priesthood and was ordained in 1907. Nearly half his priestly life had been spent in St. Helens.
Lady Agnes Feilding
The Earl of Denbigh has the prayerful sympathy of his fellow-Catholics in his bereavement by the death of his third daughter, a Sacred Heart nun at Roehampton. Lady Agnes Feilding died on August 31, and was laid to rest last Saturday after a requiem Mass in the convent chapel.
Agnes Mary Stephanie Fading was born in 1891. Her mother, the Earl's first wife, was Cecilia, daughter of the eighth Lord Clifford of Chudleigh, who died in 1919, Only last year she lost her eldest brother, Rudolph, Viscount Fending; two other brothers: Lieut.-Commander the Hon. Hugh Feilding, and Captain the Hon. Henry Fending, fell in the Great War. Lady Agnes entered religion many years ago. Until her transfer, recently, to the Roehampton convent she was for some time a member of the community at Tunbridge Wells.
Lady Chance
In Dublin, last Friday evening, the death took place suddenly of Lady Chance, widow of Sir Arthur Chance, F.R.S.C.I., who died in 1928. Lady Chance was Eileen, daughter of Mr. William M. Murphy, of Dartry, Dublin, She was educated in England, at the Holy Child Con
vent School at St, Leonards-on-Sea. In 1900 she married Sir Arthur as his second
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wife. • Miss A. M. Millar A requiem Mass was celebrated on Saturday last at the Church of the Sacred Heart, Lauriston Street, Edinburgh, for Miss Agnes Muriel Millar, who died suddenly on the 1st inst. The deceased lady was the second daughter of the late Lord Craighall, one of the Senators of the College of Justice. Following the Mass, the interment took place in Mount Yellin. Cemetery.