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Death of
IRISH PRESS
Apostolic
28.8.48
Nuncio
We deeply regret to announce the death of His Excellency the Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, Most Rev. Dr. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M., which occurred at the Nunciature, Phoenix Park, Dublin, early yesterday morning. Obituary on page seven.

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Remains Of Nuncio Lie In State
Some of those who queued up outside the Pro-Cathedral yesterday to pay a last tribute to the Papal Nuncio.
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THOUSANDS of people, many of them visitors to the city, filed past the remains of the Apostolic Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. Paschal Robinson, as they lay in state in front of St. Joseph's Altar, in the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, yesterday.
The remains were clad in the habit of a Franciscan priest and the only insignia of the late Dr. Robinson's high office was his white mitre placed at the foot of the coffin.
It was at first intended that the lying-in-state would take place from 2 to 8 p.m., but so large was the number of people waiting to pay tribute that it was decided to open the doors at an early hour.
When the Church gates were closed at 8 p.m., there were still queues of people on the street. At times the queues stretched along O'Connell St., while another queue went down towards Butt Bridge.
CALLED AT VATICAN.
The Irish Ambassador to the Holy See, Mr. J. P. Walshe, yesterday
called at the Vatican, and expressed the personal sympathy, on the death of the Apostolic Nuncio, of the Taoiseach, Mr. Costello, who, owing to his absence in New York, was unable to associate himself personally with the Government's message of sympathy, conveyed on Friday last by the Tánaiste.
C.I.E. announces that, while the funeral procession of the Nuncio is passing through the principal streets of the city to-day bus and tram services to and from the city centre will be discontinued, or diverted from their usual routes.
TENDERED SYMPATHY
Among the messages of sympathy received at the Nunciature yesterday were the following: Most Rev. Pacific
cus Perantoni O.F.M., Father-General of the Friars Minor, Rome; the Irish Franciscan College of St. Isadore, Rome; Mr. L. Boyd, district manager, TWA; Mother Stanislaus, Mount Sackville Convent; Prof. O'Rahilly, U.C.C.; the Rector and Community, Clongowes Wood College; the Mother-General and Sisters of the Missionary Convent, Killeshandra; Marist Fathers, Dundalk; Mr. E. Rooney, T.D., the Executive Committee, Irish Red Cross.
Mother-General, Sisters of the Atonement, Rome; Baron and Baroness Livonius, London; Mr. M. Sheehan, T.D., Lord Mayor, Cork; Irish Delegation at Red Cross Conference, Stockholm; District Justice Coyne; Mother Angela, Sisters of St. John of God, Wexford; Ald. P. S. Doyle, T.D., Dublin; Superior-General, Brigidine Congregation, Tullow; Mr. Sean Murphy, Irish Minister, and family, Paris.
St. Joseph Young Priests' Society, Dublin; Limerick Co. Council; Poor Clares, Galway and Cavan; Very Rev. Father Ryan, Gen. Consultor, Pallottine Fathers, Thurles; Right Hon. James McMahon; Sir Walter Nugent, Multyfarnham.
Among the messages of sympathy received by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin were telegrams from the Knights of St. Columbanus, the Irish Transport and General Workers' Union, the Workers' Union of Ireland, and the St. John Ambulance of Cork.
Rev. Bro. J. N. Allen, Secretary-General, Irish Christian Brothers, was present at the removal of remains of the Nuncio.
REQUIEM MASS
Requiem Mass was celebrated in the Franciscan Church, Limerick, yesterday, for the repose of the soul of the late Nuncio. The celebrant was Very Rev. Father Ephraim O'Shea, Guardian. The Local Council of the Knights of Malta were represented by Mr. H. Barry (representing the Ball President). The Mayor of Limerick (Mr. O'Malley, solicitor) was also present.

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Nation's Tribute At Nuncio's Obsequies
THE Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, where the remains of His Excllency Most Rev. Dr. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M., Titular Archbishop of Tiana, and Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland for almost nineteen years, had lain since last Sunday evening, was crowded yesterday when Requiem Mass for the repose of his soul was celebrated by Most Rev. John C. McQuaid, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, who, immediately after the Mass, pronounced the Absolution.
The sky was overcast as dignitaries of Church and State, members of the Diplomatic Corps, the Oireachtas, the Judiciary, the Defence Forces, the Garda Siochana, and other public representatives, arrived for the Nuncio's obsequies.
The President and Mrs. O'Kelly, who were accompanied by Col. S. O'Sullivan, A.D.C., on their arrival at the Cathedral, were received by Rev. L. Thackaberry, C.C., and Rev. F. Kenny, C.C., and escorted to the Presidential prie-dieu.
Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All-Ireland, accompanied by his chaplain, Rev. D. Daly, C.C., led the procession of the Hierarchy from the Presbytery to the Pro-Cathedral. They were followed by the Monsignori and other clergy. The attendance at the Mass included the Tanaiste and other members of the Government.
Mr. de Valera, who was present with other members of the
Oireachtas, was one of the earliest arrivals in the Pro-Cathedral.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, Councillor Breen, who was accompanied by his chaplain, Rev. Michael Grant, C.C., St. Paul's, Arran Quay, was also present.
When all in the vast congregation were in their places, the Archbishop of Dublin, accompanied by his assistants and members of the Metropolitan Chapter, proceeded to the High Altar where His Grace vested for the Mass.
His Grace was assisted by Venerable Archdeacon M. MacMahon, P.P., V.F., Clontarf; Very Rev. J. Canon Sheehan, P.P., Terenure; Rev. M. P. O'Connell, D.D., Archbishop's House, and Rev. C. McCarthy, Holy Cross College, Clonliffe. Very Rev. T. B. Condon, Adm., Pro-Cathedral, was master of ceremonies.
During the Mass, sacred music was rendered by the male voices of the Palestrina Choir, under the direction of Rev. R. MacNevin, D.D., Pro-Cathedral. The choir rendered three motets, namely: "Jesu Christe Pro Nobis Crucifixae" (German Chorale), "Justorum Animae" (V. O'Brien), and "Pie Jesu Domine" (Haan). Mr. Oliver O'Brien presided at the organ.
SIMPLE CEREMONY
After Mass, the coffin, which rested on a catafalque in front of the High Altar, and which was draped in a simple black pall without any insignia of the Nuncio's high office, was borne to the hearse by military police. The Cathedral bell tolled while thousands of people stood bare-headed in silent prayer to pay their last respects to an illustrious Churchman and Irishman.
As the congregation came out of the Cathedral, there was seen no glittering array of decorations; there were no lavish uniforms.
In accordance with the wishes of the Nuncio, the ceremony was simple; the pomp associated with the funeral of so high a dignitary was absent; and he was buried as an ordinary Franciscan friar.
Rain drizzled as the cortege moved away. No band played; instead a muffled drum beat in unison with the tread of the military police who marched on either side of the hearse, which was conspicuous by its very simplicity.
Behind followed members of the Nunciature staff and the Franciscan Fathers, their raised umbrellas forming a pall over the plain brown of their habits. It was a sad morning that Dublin will remember.
Following the Franciscans came the regular and secular clergy, and then a long line of cars carrying members of the Government, the Diplomatic Corps, the Judiciary and other public representatives.
The Gardai led the procession to Glasnevin, followed by the Irish Marine Service and the white-capped and blue-cloaked contingents from the Italian training ship, Amerigo Vespucci. Then with arms reversed came
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FUNERAL PROCESSION GOING THROUGH O'CONNELL ST.
Papal Nuncio's Funeral ATTENDANCE
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A battalion of the Army. An Army tender carried many wreaths.
The crowds were pressed closely together as they lined the pavements on the streets through which the funeral procession passed. Public buildings and private houses had their blinds drawn. Papal and National flags at the main entrance to the Cathedral, and on Government and other buildings throughout the city were flown at half-mast.
AT THE CEMETERY
His Grace the Archbishop of Dublin received the remains of the Nuncio at the entrance to the cemetery.
As commands were shouted in three languages to the troops, the Gardai and the naval detachments outside, the first peal of a nineteen one-minute gun salute rang out from the centre pathway of the new cemetery across the roadway.
Headed by the Archbishop and followed by dignitaries of Church and State, the cortege, to the tolling of the cemetery bell, moved towards the grave at the Franciscan plot.
In a steady downpour of rain the final prayers at the graveside were recited by the Archbishop, and the responses were given by Right Rev. Monsignor Gino Paro, Auditor at the Nunciature, and the Fathers of the Franciscan Order.
A troop of Catholic Boy Scouts from Merchant's Quay laid wreaths on the grave after the interment. Wreaths were received from: the Government; the Army; the officers and men of the corvette, L. E. Maebh; the Italian training vessel, Amerigo Vespucci; the Argentine Minister; the Spanish Minister; the Italian Minister; the Irish Minister; the American Minister; the Brazilian Consulate; the secretary and officers of the Department of External Affairs.
The Government was represented by the Tanaiste, Mr. Norton; the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. S. MacBride; the Minister for Finance, Mr. P. McGilligan; the Minister for Education, Gen. R. Mulcahy; the Minister for Lands, Mr. J. Blowick; the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs, Mr. J. Everett; the Minister for Agriculture, Mr. J. Dillon; the Minister for Defence, Dr. T. F. O'Higgins; and the Minister for Health, Dr. N. Browne.
Also in attendance were: Senator C. Lavery, S.C., Attorney-General; Mr. L. Cosgrave T.D., Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach; Mr. B. Corish, T.D., Parliamentary Secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Local Government.
The President of the High Court Mr. Justice Gavan Duffy; Mr. Justice O'Byrne, Mr. Justice M. Maguire, Judge McCarthy, Judge Fawsitt.

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From Reporter
To Ambassador
(By Sir Shane Leslie)
THE career of Paschal Robinson, Archbishop and Nuncio, rising from a humble Franciscan Friar, was one of the fairy stories of the Church. The outlines are very simple yet striking. -
Of mingled Irish and English stock, with American affinities, he counted Derry as near a native town as any, but owing to his diplomatic pleasure refrained from the pleasure of crossing the border to receive the plaudits and love of the Derrymen.
In his early days he was a journalist and London correspondent: the only survivor of the Fleet Street of the "Eighties." He was actually present at the Parnell Commission and saw Piggott in the box. He recalled it on the fiftieth anniversary to the day.
Afterwards he edited the Northern American Review, but suddenly passed into the Franciscan Order in the States. There indeed he might well have disappeared from the public eye. He had done his best to obliterate himself and to follow a humble vocation. He became a Franciscan authority, a lecturer and a professor—finally living at the Catholic University of Washington. He must be the only survivor of those days.
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HIS diplomatic career started as if by accident in 1918. During the war of 1914-18 he had lived near the throbbing centre of Allied power, but his light could not be hidden under a bushel.
Statesmen knew him not, but he was known to Mgr. Fay (Cardinal Gibbon's "right hand"), to Henry President, who delighted in mediceval hymns, and to Sir Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador.
When Army terror fell to the British Jermalem there was the greatest discussion as to how the Holy City should be treated. Spring Rice (who was, incidentally, an Irishman) had the brilliant idea of putting it as far as possible into the spiritual mandate of the American Catholics. To achieve this an obvious envoy.
Those who knew Paschal Robinson knew he was the man. Approval was general.
There was much amusement when it was rumoured that Father Paschal would be "sent over to bring peace in Europe." But all the Allied Ambassadors wrote commendatory letters in such terms as to surprise Pope Benedict, who decided that Father Paschal must be an unknown force, and gave him all powers possible. The President, Woodrow Wilson, gave his interested approval, for Father Paschal counted as an American.
As soon as he reached the Holy Land it became apparent that a wise influence had arrived. Sir Ronald Storrs, the British Governor, immediately realised how valuable his presence was. The question of the Holy Places received careful and traditional treatment. Hence the abiding interest which Father Paschal always felt for the Holy Places.
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HIS SUCCESS was remarkable in Palestine. In a hundred ways he assuaged bitterness and difficulties. Rome realised his high diplomatic value and sent him to Malta where once again he smoothed out difficulties. His self-abnegation in this case was stirring tale when told.
By this time he had become persona grata in the British Foreign Office, where he was known as "the miracle man," so firm and successful always was his touch. His great stepfold and admirer was the late Sir Stephen Gaselee.
As he had proved to be a man sent from God to make a peace wherever it was needed, it was seemingly a divine disposition for him to be sent to Ireland in her troubled times. No doubt, for nearly twenty years his unseen, but not unheard, influence, has been for unheard, influence, and all Churches know how deeply his influence went and was felt.
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ARCHBISHOP ROBINSON was not only the doyen or head of the Diplomatic Corps, but, strange to say, he was also the doyen or oldest reporter in Fleet St. During his first years on the Press he worked in London in the 'eighties. There were three anecdotes he was fond of referring to:—
He had followed the Parnell Commission, and he witnessed the deadly cross-examination of the forger, Pigott, in the box by Lord Russell of Killowen.
Once he found himself bringing copy up some backstairs, and finding two hard-working, obscure journalists in their shirt sleeves. They eventually became Lords Northcliffe and Rothermere.
He was the last person to remember "The Piccadilly Goat," that strange pet of the West End, which was supposed to be the scapegoat provided to carry the sins of the House of Rotherchild.
All his anecdotes he told with infinite humour and perfect charity.
He was a delightful character to entertain in London, moving a charmed life. On one occasion I had arranged for him to meet a distinguished member of the Foreign Office at lunch in my flat. The official arrived but no Archbishop.
Word was sent me of a cab accident in the next street. Imagine my feelings as I saw his familiar but unperturbed features as he was helped out of one wrecked taxi and put into another. Though in pain, he insisted on keeping his appointment.
One incident, somewhat outside his ecclesiastical duties, involved much time and correspondence. Certain parties requested him to save Frank Ryan from execution in Spain and for weeks letters of an indirect nature passed until they filled a folio.
The British and Irish Governments failed and Ryan's execution seemed certain. The Nuncio summoned me and we sent the Duke of Alba a telegram at midnight without compromising the Nuncio's name. It was a very tactful document.
The Duke was much amused in telling the story from his end: how he was roused in the night and energed it was a telegram of energic importance.
There was no execution.
If all the Nuncio's life could be told! But most of it is wrapped in diplomatic files or better still in the ledgers which are kept by the Recording Angels.

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THE UNIVERSE, September 3, 1948.
9
PAPAL NUNCIO DIES
IN DUBLIN
Lawyer, journalist, diplomat
ARCHBISHOP PASCHAL ROBINSON, Papal Nuncio in Ireland, died in Dublin on Friday after a few hours' illness. He was 78.
His Grace had celebrated Mass as usual at 6.30 the previous day and was in normal health until about 8 p.m. Four hours later the Franciscan Minister Provincial, Fr. Evangelist, OFM, was called to administer Extreme Unction.
At 4.3 a.m. the Nuncio died. Within half an hour, Requiem Mass was offered by Fr. Ernest Cronin, OFM, acting Secretary at the Nunciature.
Archbishop Robinson, born in Dublin, originally intended to become a lawyer, but after several years' study he turned to journalism.
By the age of 22 he was associate editor of the North American Review, working in London.
After three years in this post, however, he decided to become a Franciscan. He was ordained in Rome in 1901.
From Rome he was sent to Washington to teach theology, but after two years he was recalled to Italy to collaborate in historical research. He catalogued several groups of archives which had previously been inaccessible to students.
IN NEAR EAST
After six years of this quiet but intensive work he was sent on an extended visitation of all the Franciscan missions in the Near East—a mission which eventually led to his appointment, after several further years of teaching and lecturing in Washington, to the Papal diplomatic service.
The Holy See sent him to the Paris Peace Conference to watch over the interests of the Holy Places, and later he was engaged in negotiations affecting Greece and Egypt as well as Palestine. For three years, from 1925, he was Apostolic Visitor to Palestine.
Next he was sent on a very difficult and delicate mission to Malta, to investigate, report on and make recommendations for the solution of serious difficulties between the Government and the ecclesiastical authorities.
His mission was an outstanding success.
He was appointed Nuncio to Ireland in November, 1930—the first resident representative of the Holy See in Ireland for three centuries.
Archbishop Robinson wrote several important works, including a seven-volume discourse on early Franciscan life and literature.—R.I.P.

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DUBLIN.
8th September, 1948.
Dear Reverend Father Senan,
I am very grateful to you for your very kind message of sympathy on the death of His Excellency, the Nuncio Apostolic. His passing is a great loss to the Church and the Irish people, and as you remark his death has been a real sorrow to us all.
I must take this opportunity of thanking you very sincerely for entertaining Monsignor Francia so well. He enjoyed your company very much and was very grateful to you for showing him around. He told me that he found the pictures and stain glass windows quite remarkable and most interesting. I hope that the works he saw will supply him with material to write an appreciation on the Irish living art.
With all kind wishes to yourself and Father Gerald.
Sincerely yours in Xto.,

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The Passing of a Great
Irish Churchman
Death of Mgr. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M.
DUBLIN was thronged as hardly ever before in one of the greatest Horse Show Weeks; news was coming from America of the welcome to the Head of our Government; and all was preparing for a grand contest at Croke Park, when the sorrowful news was broadcast that we had lost the vicar among us of the Vicar of Christ.
Mgr. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M., Archbishop of Tyana, Nuncio Apostolic, will be remembered in history, and in the records of heaven, as one of Ireland's noblest sons. The consciousness of this was evident in the bearing of our people when thousands lined the streets to watch the removal of his remains, from the Nunciature in the Phoenix Park, to the Pro-Cathedral, where, by his own request, he lay without eviscopal insignia, as a simple Franciscan friar. The State accorded all the tokens of national mourning that were consistent with his humble wishes: he was self-effacing, even in death.
The President, ecclesiastical and civil heads of the nation attended the obsequies; the entire diplomatic corps and an uncountable multitude of people. Among the prelates was the Bishop of Killaloe, who is said to be the oldest Bishop now living in the Universal Church.
Eighteen years have passed since Mgr. Robinson came to us—came to a land still torn and bitter after civil war and many tribulations; came, it may be said, to a watchful and anxious country. The popular enthusiasm for the Holy Father's representative, manifested at receptions up and down the island, is indescribable; but the quiet, almost silent figure on whom it was lavished, sought nothing for himself—all for the Holy Father, and for the mission of peace that was entrusted to him.
HOMELY
In that secluded lodge in the Park, which formerly had been the residence of the British
By
Aodh de Blácam
Under-Secretary, the Franciscan host received all men; talked with a certain homely, scholarly, affable charm, telling stories of America, Italy, Palestine, Malta, and casting, as it were, the spell of the Church's universality upon all minds. In such an atmosphere, peace breathed. It cannot be told how winningly, how skilfully, the Friar Diplomat pacified, reconciled, united men, and helped us on to that magnificent time, the supreme moment in Irish history since the coming of St. Patrick, when Dublin was the Eucharistic throne, and all the nations of Christendom knelt in the Mass of a million worshipers.
It was an unusual departure, and a splendid stroke of wisdom, when the first Nuncio Apostolic to the Irish State was an Irish-
man. For only an Irishman, one suspects, could have understood perfectly the complex of our country, emerging from a troubled past, racial and party strife, into serene nationhood. Critics at first remarked that Dr. Paschal came of what we call Whig stock:
they thought that he would lack full sympathy with the national aims and ideals: but they were conquered at once by what confounds all worldly calculations—and that is, sanctity. His utter selflessness, his utter goodwill to men of goodwill, made this great and humble churchman the very moulder of the spirit of new Ireland. If we have today a State, in which the leaders of all parties are equally types of true Catholic dignity and loyalty, and in which the people are bound with the greater devotion than ever to the Holy See, heaven surely will credit the happy consummation greatly to the work of the Franciscan soul that has passed from among us, after so long and faithful service of the Faith.
Mgr. Paschal Robinson (left) speaking with "Fr. Senan, editor of "Capuchin Annual"

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Luke The Listener . . . . Recalls The Late Nuncio
KINDLY FRIAR WAS ONCE
"ROBINSON OF THE SUN"
THE arrival of Monsignor Felici carried my memory back to a dark winter night when we waited in the Pro-Cathedral the coming of Monsignor Paschal Robinson.
The notables of Church and State—all the Orders in their various habits—and a multitude of the laity waited in stillness and wonder; mystery was in the air. For the coming of a Nuncio Apostolic to our nation was something we had read of in history, but never known.
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Difficult Task
I remember how all heads turned and craned as the
procession came from the doors up the aisle. The beloved Archbishop, the gentle Dr. Byrne, as he approached the sanctuary, moved to the Epistle side. The throne stood vacant.
Then, with his grey Franciscan cappa magna, the Nuncio Apostolic came with downcast eyes, turned to the Gospel side, and ascended the Archbishop's throne.
The act struck at the mind. Then we realised its meaning. The representative, had taken the seat of supreme authority in the archdiocese of the Primate of Ireland.
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The first Nuncio to Ireland in modern times had a delicate and difficult task: but never was such a task better executed. That was because "Father Paschal" was at once a consummate diplomatist and a most lovable, gentle, approachable man.
At his first public reception he was so silent that he disappointed many; but he was deliberately effacing himself, and making his yoke light.
When, with fear and trembling, you visited the great, silent churchman at the Nunciature, he surprised you by breaking silence in a homely accent, and talking breezily about the homeliest things.
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Kilkenny Memory
You discovered that "Charlie Robinson of the Sun"—as he was called when he worked as a journalist—was the same man as this ascetic Franciscan.
His homeliness never impaired his dignity. Though he would tell you humorous stories about Rome and Malta, and even spirituality glowed through all.
I think that his strength lay in his intense personal devo-
tion to his master, the Holy Father. One day he invited me up to the Park to show me something.
It was the newly-installed portrait of the Pope, which is set in every Nunciature. The remarkable thing about that enshrined painting was that it was the work of a Chinese nun in Rome. Pius XI, with his great love of the missions, had delighted (the Nuncio said) to commission a daughter of the Faith from the East to execute that work of art.
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I had the privilege of witnessing the visit of the Nuncio to Kilkenny, the city of the former Nuncio's residence, and of hearing the civic fathers recall the deeds of Rinuccini with flaming oratory.
At Maynooth, too, when glories of ecclesiastical ceremony were seen—and a dreadful misprint occurred.
For I wrote of the President of the College awaiting the Nuncio in a golden cope: and the printer changed golden to golfing!
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That was the occasion when Monsignor Robinson disclosed the fact that Pius XI had wished, before his elevation to the Holy See, to make the pilgrimage to St. Patrick's Purgatory.
A year later the Nuncio attended the consecration of the new Basilica at Lough Derg. He sat at a gathering in the guesthouse afterwards. There were 18 speeches, lasting several hours.
"I have not made the pilgrimage," said the Nuncio with characteristic humour, "but I have made the penitential exercises."

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PAPAL NUNCIO
TO IRELAND
APPOINTED
HIS EXCELLENCY MONSIGNOR ETTORE FELICI, TITULAR ARCHBISHOP OF CORINTH, WAS YESTERDAY APPOINTED APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO IRELAND BY HIS HOLINESS THE POPE, SAYS AN ASSOCIATED PRESS MESSAGE FROM CASTEL GANDOLFO.
The office has been vacant since the death in August, 1948, of Most Rev. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M. The new Nuncio has had a long and distinguished diplomatic career, and since 1945 has lived in Rome as a member of the Vatican Secretariat of State.
J. J. Sept 3rd 1949.
Aged 68, his Excellency Monsignor Felici was born in Segninear Rome. He was ordained in 1903, and in 1908 was appointed Professor at Segni Seminary.
In 1912 he went as Professor to the Regional Seminary at Catanzaro. He was appointed in 1916 an official of the Papal Secretariat of State.
Four years later he received his first appointment abroad, when he became Auditor of the Apostolic Nunciature in Belgrade.
In 1925 he was transferred as Auditor to Lisbon and in 1927 became Charge d'Affaires to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago, Chile, being appointed Papal Nuncio later the same year.
NUNCIO IN BELGRADE.
Monsignor Felici was consecrated Titular Archbishop of Corinth in 1937. He was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia in 1938, and country he was compelled to leave Belgrade with other diplomats.
Most Rev. Paschal Robinson had been Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland since the post was established in 1929. Since his death a year ago, Auditor of the Nunciature, has been Charge d'Affaires.
ARCHBISHOP'S TELEGRAMS
The following telegrams were sent yesterday to Vatican City by the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid:
To His Excellency Monsignor Montini: "May I ask your Excellency to be good enough to express to the Holy Father, on behalf of the Metropolitan Chapter, the Clergy and Faithful of the Archdiocese of Dublin, and in my own name, I beg filial gratitude and deep satisfaction at the appointment of His Excellency Monsignor Felici, as successor to the late Apostolic Nuncio."
To His Excellency Monsignor Felici: "On behalf of the Metropolitan Chapter, he Clergy and Faithful of the Archdiocese of Dublin, and in my own name, I beg to offer to Your Excellency our respectful congratulations on your appointment as Nuncio Apostolic at Dublin, and the assurance of our devoted loyalty to the representative of His Holiness."
Mr. MacBride, Minister for External Affairs, on learning of the appointment, sent a message to the Vatican Secretariat of State, conveying an assurance of the profound satisfaction at the appointment of so distinguished a Prelate as Papal Nuncio. He also informed the Secretariat that a most cordial welcome awaits Ireland lency on his arrival in Ireland.

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The Apostolic Nuncio
requests the honour of the presence of
Sirs Terey Rev. Fathers Sermon, D. F. M. Cap.
at a Reception to be held at the Nunciature
on Monday, 12th Chorch, from 6 to 8 p.m.
to commemorate the Anniversary
of the Holy Father's Coronation.
R. S. V. P.

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EVENING HERALD
Wednesday, May 9, 1951
Telephone No. 46121 (8 lines)
Passing of the
Nuncio
IN the all too brief time he spent among us, the Nuncio Apostolic, whose unexpected passing we announce with deep regret to-day, endeared himself to all sections of the community with whom he came in contact.
Most Rev. Dr. Felici was the second prelate to hold the high office of the Holy Father's representative in this country since the establishment of the State. Distinguished in diplomacy and a brilliant linguist, he had served the Pontiff in many fields in Europe during the trying and dangerous war years. His gifts were many and were unsparingly devoted to the welfare of the Church. But at heart His Excellency remained a simple and devoted priest.
When he came to the Republic in 1949, succeeding the first Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. Robinson, whose lamented death occurred the previous year, Dr. Felici, unlike his predecessor, who was Dublin-born, found himself in unfamiliar surroundings. But he was at once at home, for he came among a people whose traditional loyalty to the See of Peter surmounted at once the barriers of different race and outlook. The Nuncio was thus treading familiar ground in a country whose unbroken link with the Holy See is its greatest glory.
But apart from that the personality of His Excellency would have broken down any barrier. His interest in the country was unbounded, as his public utterances showed. We had hoped that he would have been spared to us for many years, but Providence has decreed otherwise, and we are the poorer for his passing.

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DEATH OF THE
PAPAL NUNCIO
HIS Excellency, the Papal Nuncio, Most Rev. Ettore Felici, died at St. Vincent's Private Hospital, Leeson St., at 9 o'clock this morning.
At his bedside when he passed away was his nephew, Right Rev. Monsignor Angelo Felici, who is attached to the Vatican Secretariat of State, and who flew from Rome last Monday.
The last rites were administered by Rev. H. Kelly, S.J.
Aged seventy, His Excellency underwent an operation on Wednesday last. He remained conscious to the end.
His last public appearance was on Saturday week, when he celebrated Mass in University Church for the late President of Portugal, Marshal Carmona. On the following day he was about his duties as usual and wrote many letters.
He went into hospital last Wednesday and was operated on immediately.
SEMINARY PROFESSOR
Monsignor Felici, who came to Dublin on October 26, 1949, succeeded the late Most Rev. Paschal Robinson as Apostolic Nuncio.
Born in Segni, near Rome, Monsignor Felici was ordained in 1903. In 1908 he was appointed Professor at Segni Seminary.
In 1912 he went as Professor to the Regional Seminary at Catanzaro, and was appointed in 1916 as an official of the Papal Secretariat of State. Four years later he received his first appointment abroad when he became Auditor of the Apostolic Nunciature in Belgrade.
In 1925 he was transferred as Auditor to Lisbon, and in 1927 became Charge d'Affaires to the Apostolic Nunciature in Santiago Chile, being appointed Papal Nuncio later the same year.
IN YUGOSLAVIA
Consecrated Titular Archbishop of Corinth in 1937, he was appointed Apostolic Nuncio to Yugoslavia in 1938, and when the Germans invaded the country he was compelled to leave Belgrade with other diplomats.
Since coming to Dublin, Monsignor Felici, as the doyen of the Diplomatic Corps, endeared himself to all who met him.
The office of Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland was established in 1929 and was filled from its inception by Most Rev. Paschal Robinson until his death in 1948.
Owing to the death of Monsignor Felici the ceremony of the presentation of his credentials to the Pre-
sident by Dr. Walter de Bourg, Swiss Envoy Extraordinary, which was to have taken place to-day, has been postponed.
Mr. Sean MacBride, Minister for External Affairs, called to St. Vincent's Private Hospital this morning and later to the Nunciature.
President O'Kelly was one of the first callers at the Nunciature this morning to express his personal sympathy.
The following telegram was sent to the Nunciature by Mr. William Norton, An Tanaiste: "The Labour Party mourns the death of the reverend Apostolic Nuncio, whose passing is a great loss to the Church and to the Irish people."
TO THE POPE
President O'Kelly and Mr. Costello, An Taoiscach, have sent messages of sympathy to His Holiness the Pope on the death of the Nuncio Apostolic.
Mr. MacBride, Minister of External Affairs, has sent a similar message to Monsignor Montini, Substitute Secretary of State to His Holiness.
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PAPAL NUNCIO DIES
AFTER OPERATION
We regret to announce the death, which occurred in a private nursing home in Dublin yesterday, of the Most Rev. Mgr. Ettore Felici, Papal Nuncio to the Republic of Ireland, and Titular Archbishop of Corinth. He was aged 70 years.
The Most Rev. Mgr. Felici had been ill for over a week, and on Wednesday of last week he was removed to a nursing home, where he was operated on immediately. On Tuesday evening it was announced from the Nunciature that his condition gave cause for grave concern.
With him when he died at 9.10 a.m. were his nephew, the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Angelo Felici, of the Vatican Secretariate of State, who arrived in Dublin last Monday, and the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Benelli, Secretary of the Nunciature.
The Archbishop of Dublin, the Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid, arrived at the nursing home a few minutes after his death. Dr. McQuaid had visited him the previous night.
The Last Rites of the Church had been administered by the Rev. H. Kelly, S.J., Gardiner street.
PROFOUND SHOCK
The news of the Nuncio's death came as a profound shock. He had been Papal Nuncio here for only 18 months, but in that time he had established many close friendships with the members of the Irish Hierarchy, the Diplomatic Corps, Government Ministers and others with whom he came into contact.
He was the second Papal Nuncio to this country since the establishment of the Irish State, having succeeded the late Most Rev. Dr. Paschal Robinson, O.F.M., who died in 1948.
Yesterday, on Government and other public buildings in Dublin, flags were flown at half mast, and hundreds of messages of sympathy were received at the Nunciature.
The Nuncio's body was removed privately from the nursing home to the Nunciature yesterday evening.
STATE HONOURS
To-day, at 6 p.m., the body will be removed from the Apostolic Nunciature, Phoenix Park, to the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough street, where it will arrive at 7.30 p.m., and will be received by the Archbishop of Dublin. State honours will be rendered, and a military guard of honour will accompany the contege. The route will be by the main road, Queens Park, along the North quay to O'Connell Bridge, and thence by O'Connell and Marlborough streets. At 7.30 p.m. Solemn Office of the Dead will be sung.
After Requiem Mass, at 11 a.m. to-morrow, the body will lie in state at the Pro-Cathedral until the evening. On Saturday morning at 11 a.m., there will be Pontificial Requiem Mass, at which the Archbishop of Dublin will preside. The Mass will be sung by the Dean of the Metropolitan Chapter, the Most Rev. Dr. Dunne, Bishop of Nara.
After the Absolution, the body will be removed immediately to the vaults of the Pro-Cathedral, pending its transfer to the new Dublin Cathedral. In the vaults are buried three former Archbishops of Dublin—the Most Rev. Dr. Troy, the Most Rev. Dr. Murray and the Most Rev. Dr. Byrne.
NUNCIATURE CALLERS
Among those who called at the Nunciature yesterday to express sympathy were the President, the Taoiseach, the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. MacBride; the Minister for Finance, Mr. McGilligan; the Minister for Education, General Mulcahy; the Speaker of the Dail, Mr. F. Fahy; Mr. Charles Casey, S.C.; the Canadian Ambassador, Mr. W. F. A. Turgeon; the British Ambassador, Sir Gilbert Laithwaite; the Spanish Ambassador, the Marquess de Miraflores; the Italian Minister, Signor Guido Borga; the Netherlands Minister, Jonkheer J. W. M. Snouck Hurgronje; the Lord Mayor of Dublin, Alderman J. Belton; the Secretary to the Government, Mr. M. Moynihan; Mr. de Valera, Mr. J. D. Petherbridge, Secretary, Australian Embassy; Dr. P. J. Hernon, Dublin City Manager; the Very Rev. Dr. Donald Cregan, C.M., President, Castleknock College; the Provincial of the Holy Ghost Order, the Very Rev. Patrick O'Carroll, C.S.S.P.; the Very Rev. Brother E. F. Clancy, Pro-Superior-General, Irish Christian Brothers.
The following telegram was sent by the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, to Mgr. Montini, Vatican Secretariate of State:—"I would request Your Excellency to be good enough to express to the Metropolitan Chapter, of the clergy and faithful of the Diocese of Dublin, and in my own name, our very deep regret at the loss of our venerated and beloved Apostolic Nuncio."
The Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, the Most Rev. Dr. D'Alton, in a message to
The Late Papal Nuncio
Mgr. Benelli, Secretary to the Nunciature, stated: "On behalf of the Irish Hierarchy, I wish to express my sincere sympathy on the death of the Apostolic Nuncio, who was greatly beloved by all who were privileged to know him."
The President and the Taoiseach sent messages of sympathy to the Pope, and a similar message was sent by the Minister for External Affairs to Mgr. Montini.
Chief Rabbi Jakobovits has sent telegrams to the Apostolic Nunciature and to the President. The telegram to the Nunciature reads:—"Jewish communities in Ireland share with their fellow citizens their sense of grief at the death of his Excellency, Most Rev. Mgr. Ettore Felici, Nuncio Apostolic. As spiritual head of Jewish communities I express my personal sorrow and sympathy at passing of a great dignitary of Catholic Church."
Messages of sympathy were also received at the Nunciature from the Bishop of Derry, the Most Rev.
Dr. Farren; the Bishop of Ferns, the Most Rev. Dr. Staunton; the Bishop of Limerick, the Most Rev. Dr. O'Neill; the Bishop of Down and Connor, the Most Rev. Dr. Mageean, the Lord Abbot of Mount St. Joseph Abbey, Roscrea, the Rt. Rev. Dom. Camillus Claffey; the Minister for Local Government Mr. Keyes; the Tanaiste, Mr. Norton, Minister for Social Welfare; the Minister for Lands, Mr. Blowick; Mr. T. Mullins, general secretary, Fianna Fail; Mr. Paul Miller, Chief of the E.C.A. Mission to Ireland; the Very Rev. J. O'Regan, Head Chaplain to the Forces; the Provincial of the Augustinian Fathers; the Lord Mayor of Cork, Mr. Sean MacCarthy; P. O'Caoimh, secretary, G.A.A.; Mr. T. McGreevy, director, National Gallery; the Very Rev. T. Garde, O.P., Provincial; the Mother General, Sisters of St. Louis, Monaghan; the Earl of Wicklow.

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The Nunciature, Phoenix Park, with the Papal Flag flying at half-mast.
Solemn Office
For Nuncio
THE President, the Taoiseach, members of the Diplomatic Corps, members of the Government and of the Council of State, and members of the Hierarchy and clergy will be among those who will attend the removal of the remains of the late Nuncio, His Excellency Most Rev. Monsignor Ettore Felici, from the Nunciature, this evening, to the Pro-Cathedral, Marlborough St., where Solemn Office for the Dead will be sung at 7.30.
THE CORTEGE
The remains will be removed from the Nunciature at 6 o'c. and will be received by Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid. Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland. at the Pro-Cathedral
State honours will be rendered and a Military Guarl of Honour will accompany the cortege. which will proceed by the main road, Phoenix Park. along the North Quays to O'Connell Bridge and thence by O'Connell St and Marlborough Street.
The body will lie in state to-morrow from after Mass at 11 a.m., and will be transferred
to the vaults of the Pro-Cathedral after Pontifical Requiem Mass at 11 a.m. on Saturday.
MESSAGES
Telegrams tendering condolences on the death of Monsignor Felici continue to arrive at the Nunciature.
Those who sent messages included:—
Mr. J. Blowick Minister for Lands; Mr. Michael Keyes, Minister for Local Government; Most Rev. Dr. Browne Bishop of Galway; Most Rev. Dr. O'Doherty Bishop of Dromore; Most Rev. Dr. O'Callaghan, Bishop of Clogher; The Chief Justice and Mrs. Maguire; The President of the High Court and Mrs. Gavan Duffy; Maj.-Gen. Liam Archer, Chief of Staff on behalf of the Defence Forces; Mr. Joseph O'Dea President of the Catholic Stage Guild;
Father Harnett Director of the Holy Child Association; The Supreme Secretary of the Knights of Columbanus; Mr. E. T. McCarron, Chairman, Aer Lingus; Senator F. Summerfield; Capt. P. Cowan, T.D.; Mr. A. McCarthy, Registrar of the N.U.I.;
The Mother General and community of the St. John of God Convent, Wexford; The Superior of the Holy Ghost Fathers, Kimmage; The Provincial of the Vincentians. Very Rev. J. O'Doherty, C.M. and Father Enda Keane, O.F.M.
Dublin Port and Docks Board, at its meeting to-day, Mr. D. J. Twohig chairman, presiding, passed a resolution expressing sympathy on the death of the Nuncio.

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Crowds At Pro-Cathedral
APOSTOLIC NUNCIO
LIES IN STATE
THE nation to-day continued mourning for the Apostolic Nuncio, His Excellency, Most Rev. Ettore Felici,
There were long queues of people to pay their last respects to the Nuncio as the remains, in full Pontificals, lay in state opposite St. Joseph's Altar in the Pro-Cathedral.
From early morning there were crowds in the Pro-Cathedral and there were very large congregations for all the Masses. Afterwards the crowds formed into a file to walk past the catafalque.
Attendants kept the file on the move. Almost continuously throughout the day the file moved slowly past. At lunch hour the queue rapidly lengthened.
UNTIL 9.30 P.M.
Big crowds are expected to visit the catafalque to-night, and to facilitate them the Pro-Cathedral will remain open until 9.30.
This morning a private Requiem Mass was celebrated by the Nuncio's nephew, Right Rev. Mgr. Angelo Felici.
The public Requiem Mass was celebrated, before a huge congregation by the Administrator Very Rev. R. MacNevin, D.D., at 11 o'clock. After the Mass the lying-in-state officially began.
To-morrow the Solemn Requiem Mass will be sung by the Dean of the Metropolitan Chapter, the Bishop of Nara, Most Rev. Patrick Dunne. It was he who in his capacity as Dean received His Excellency at the door of the Pro-Cathedral in the liturgical reception of the Nuncio.
To-morrow morning the Hierarchy will vest in the Presbytery and the Clergy in Marlborough Schools.
At the conclusion of the Absolutions, the five prelates will withdraw and the Bishop of Nara will escort the remains to the vaults, preceded by the clergy and members of the Hierarchy. Only the Bishop and the Chanters will descend into the vaults.
The clergy are requested to be in position in choir not later than 10.45 a.m.
The Taoiseach will enter the Pro-Cathedral at 10.45 a.m.
The President will enter at 10.50 a.m. and the members of the Hierarchy at 10.52 a.m.
His Grace the Archbishop enters at 10.55 a.m., with the Metropolitan Chapter.
The Vocational Education Officers' Organisation, at its annual Congress in Dublin to-day, expressed sympathy on the death of the Apostolic Nuncio.

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MOST REV. DR. FELICI
LAID TO REST
A view of the Pro-Cathedral during the Requiem Mass.
Members of the Hierarchy pictured entering the Pro-Cathedral
Pontifical
Requiem
Mass
CHURCH dignataries, and the leaders of the Solemn attended at the Solemn obsequies of the Most Rev. Dr. Ettore Felici, Apostolic Nuncio, in the Pro-Cathedral to-day, when, after Pontifical Requiem Mass, the remains were laid to rest in the Cathedral vaults.
At the ceremonies were the President and Mrs. O'Kelly, the Taoiseach; members of the Hierarchy and Government; the Diplomatic Corps and the Council of State.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid, presided at the Mass, which was

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Sunday Prin 13/5/57
LAID TO REST
The remains of the Papal Nuncio, His Excellency Mgr. Ettore Felici, being carried by military pallbearers from the altar of the Pro-Cathedral to the vaults. (Report p. 3.)
LAST TRIBUTE TO NUNCIO
In utter contrast to the colour and joyousness marking his reception as Papal Nuncio at the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, 18 months ago, the funeral took place, yesterday, to the vaults of the same Church where a number of Dublin's Archbishops lie.
The Pro-Cathedral was draped with black on which white crosses were the only contrast. In the sunny streets crowds gathered during the morning and watched the arrival of the representatives of the State and of the city. From several of the dioceses of Ireland the Bishops came and from all the parishes of Dublin the monsignori, canons and priests.
Shortly after the President arrived, His Grace the Most Rev. J. C. McQuaid, D.D., Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, who presided at the obsequies, entered the church, and the Pontifical Requiem Mass was sung by the Dean of the Metropolitan Chapter, the Bishop of Nara, Most Rev. Dr. Dunne (who officiated at the reception of the Nuncio newly come to
Ireland).
Outside, during the Mass, companies of troops came in slow march with reversed rifles and took up position as guard of honour.
The Cathedral was crowded, with parts of the nave reserved for the Government representatives, members of the Council of State, Diplomatic Corps, members of the Corporation, and also representatives of the professional, educational and cultural life of the country.

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Ireland's New Papal
Nuncio
Archbishop
O'Hara Is
Appointed
THE Holy Father has named Archbishop Gerald Patrick O'Hara Apostolic Nuncio for Ireland, says an Associated Press report from the Vatican.
The prelate, who had been Bishop of Savannah and Atlanta, Georgia, succeeds Monsignor Ettore Felici, who died recently.
Archbishop O'Hara was for three years Papal Nuncio at Bucharest.
Iron Curtain
When Communist authorities forced him to leave Rumania in July, 1950, he was the last Vatican representative in an Iron Curtain country.
It was shortly after his expulsion that the Pope elevated him to the rank of Archbishop.
Archbishop O'Hara was Regent of the Nunciature in Bucharest when he and his staff were given three days' notice to leave Rumania. The
Communist authorities gave as their reason that "he had made use of his diplomatic position to interfere with the internal affairs of the People's Republic."
The Red regime had been trying for months to drive Archbishop O'Hara out of the country.
When the expulsion order was issued, the Rumanian Foreign Office said that at a recent "trial" witnesses had linked the Archbishop
with "a group of spies and traitors" before the court.
Sole Interest
Archbishop O'Hara's reply was: "We had no interest in military or commercial information, as the Reds charged. Our sole interest was the welfare of the Church. For that we work, and for nothing else."
On arrival in Rome after his expulsion, Archbishop O'Hara was given a hero's welcome by a cheering throng of Holy Year pilgrims from many nations.
The expulsion was denounced by the Vatican as a mean and shameful step in the planned destruction of the Church in Rumania.
Studied in Rome
Archbishop O'Hara was born at Seranton, Pennsylvania, on May 4, 1895, the son of Patrick James O'Hara. His mother's maiden name was Eduard Carter Stark.
Educated at St. Joseph's College High School, Philadelphia, he began his studies for the priesthood at St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, in 1911. In 1918 he entered the Pontifical Seminary in April 3, 1920.
He was secretary to Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1924-29; Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, 1929-35; and Bishop of Savannah and Atlanta from 1935.
The Archbishop's home address is 222 East Harris Street, Savannah, Georgia.
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Eminent Prelate
Named As Nuncio
Most Rev. Dr. Gerald P. O'Hara, the new Papal Nuncio to Ireland.
MOST REV. DR. GERALD PATRICK O'HARA has been named by His Holiness the Pope as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland, it was announced in Vatican City yesterday. He will succeed Most Rev. Dr. Ettore Felici, who died last May.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was a three years Papal Nuncio at Bucharest, until he was expelled by the Communists in July, 1950. At that time he was the last Vatican representative behind the Iron Curtain.
The Nuncio-elect, who was elected to the rank of Archbishop last year, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, 56 years ago, the son of Patrick James O'Hara. His mother's maiden name was Margaret Carney.
Educated at St. Joseph's College High School, Philadelphia, he began his studies for the priesthood at St. Charles Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, in 1911. In 1918 he entered the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, where he was ordained in 1920.
He was Secretary to Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1924-29; Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, 1929-35; and Bishop of Savannah and Atlanta from 1935.
PONTIFF'S ESTEEM.
At the time of Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara's appointment to Bucharest in 1946, Vatican sources said that his ability was held in high esteem by His Holiness the Pope. Before going to Bucharest he had been selected as Papal Envoy to Albania, but the Government there had refused to admit any Vatican representative.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was Regent of the Nunciature in Bucharest when he and his staff were given three days' notice to leave Rumania. The Communist authorities gave as their reason that "he had made use of his diplomatic position to interfere with the internal affairs of the People's Republic."
During the final months of his stay in Bucharest the Regent had been under close surveillance.
When the expulsion order was issued, the Rumanian Foreign Office said that at a recent "trial"
Archbishop's Message
THE following telegram has been sent by his Grace the Archbishop of Dublin to Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara. Savannah, Georgia: "On behalf of the Metropolitan Chapter, Clergy and Faithful of Dublin, and in my own name, I gladly offer your Excellency respectful congratulations and assurance of sincere welcome." —Archbishop McQuaid.
witnesses had linked the Archbishop with "a group of spies and traitors" before the Court.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara's reply was: "We had no interest in military or commercial information, as the Reds charged. Our sole interest was the welfare of the Church. For that we work, and for nothing else."
On arrival in Rome on July 9, 1950, after his expulsion, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was given a hero's welcome by a cheering throng of Holy Four days later he was elevated to the rank of Archbishop.
The expulsion was denounced by the Vatican as a mean and shameful step in the planned destruction of the Church in Rumania.—A.P. and Reuter.

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Reds Hoped To Jail
Ireland's Nuncio
Due 7-1951
From a STANDARD Special Correspondent.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Thursday. — IF COMINFORM PLANS HAD WORKED OUT MOST REV. GERALD PATRICK O'HARA, THE HOLY FATHER'S NEW ENVOY TO IRELAND, WOULD HAVE SHARED THE FATE OF CARDINAL MINDSZENTY.
The Cominform (I learned from two Rumanian diplomats who made their escape to this country), had hoped to bring Mgr. O'Hara, then Papal Nuncio in Rumania, before a military tribunal in Bucharest, the capital, charged with espionage.
According to Dr. Michalescu, former First Secretary of the Rumanian Foreign Office, Dr. O'Hara had been selected by the Cominform for "liquidation" and all they waited for was an opportunity to put their plan into action.
Here is the full story . . . In August, 1948, Cominform Headquarters was transferred from Belgrade to Bucharest, almost in fact, to within a stone's throw of Mgr. O'Hara's Nunciature.
The Soviet Embassy and the social "Religious Department" of Cominform panicked when they learned that within a short time the Nuncio had become very popular with Rumanian Orthodox Church leaders representative of about 80 per cent. of the people. A pretext was, therefore, sought to sever relations between the Vatican and the Catholic Church in Eastern Europe.
As Dr. Michalescu put it: "Anna Pauker," the notorious Communist Foreign Minister and Cominform leader, put forward the idea that the Vatican should be "put on trial and unmasked" for "connections with Wall Street and the West."
"The method to be employed was to arrest Mgr. O'Hara and secure from him a "confession" along the lines of the tragic Cardinal Mindszenty. It was Pauker's devilish plan to make the Papal Nuncio the leading witness against the Vatican!
Data on the Cardinal Mindszenty "confession" and the method of securing it was studied,
and a team of Russian experts was called in. With diabolical brilliancy the "confession experts" went to work, studying in detail the man who was to become their victim.
It was hoped to make Mgr. O'Hara confess that he was a spy for the Vatican against "the People's Democracies."
The stage was set for a huge trial, and a Press "hate" campaign launched. According to a carefully prepared time-table Mgr. O'Hara was to be arrested on September 1, 1949, and his trial to open on October 15 following.
But international and other factors intervened and the plan, after being twice postponed, was finally shelved—mainly because Moscow feared American reaction.
As is known, Mgr. O'Hara was later expelled.
(The appointment of Archbishop O'Hara to the Nunciature in Dublin has been received with special pleasure in Philadelphia, writes our own correspondent, where he served as Auxiliary Bishop and where he endeared himself to the people. He was for many years a close friend of the first Nuncio to the modern Irish State, Archbishop Pascal Robinson, of whom he was a great admirer and whom he knew since his student days in Rome.)

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Irish Independence.
5/31/52.
Church And State Greet New Nuncio
The new Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, accompanied by the Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid, and the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Aiken, on arrival at Dublin Airport last night
THE fourth Papal Nuncio in our history, Most Rev. Dr. Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Archbishop of Savannah and Atlanta, arrived at Dublin Airport last night, having journeyed from Paris. Responding to the welcome of the crowds at the airport his Excellency said: "I do not know how to express my feelings of appreciation of your kindness and your goodness. God bless you all."
First to greet the representative of His Holiness was the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid. The balconies of the airport were lined with people as the two Prelates greeted each other. Dignitaries of Church and State were in the procession which escorted his Excellency from the Aer Lingus plane. St. Albert, to the airport building. There was a wave of cheering and handclapping as Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara passed into the lounge to which he responded by raising his hand in blessing.
The Archbishop of Delhi and Simla, Most Rev. Dr. J. Fernandez, at the plane visiting Dublin, was also at the plane to greet the Nuncio
PLEASANT SURPRISE
A pleasant surprise was the greeting of six American Army chaplains who had flown specially from Germany to be present for his arrival. First to be these to kneel and kiss his ring was Rev. J. H. Gready, who belongs to Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara's own diocese.
The plane in which the Nuncio travelled from Paris developed slight engine trouble, and it was decided to put into Northolt instead of coming direct to Dublin. There a change was made to the St. Albert which was over an hour late as a result. Accompanying the Nuncio was Right Rev. Monsignor John C. Kirk, his personal secretary in Rumania, who will remain in Dublin for some days. Monsignor Kirk is now President of the Rumanian Catholic Mission for Europe with headquarters in Madrid. He had travelled from Madrid to join Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara in Paris and make the journey to Ireland with him.
After the Nuncio had posed for pictures on the landing steps of the plane, he was greeted by Mr. Aiken, Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Boland, Minister for Justice, Senator A. Clarkin, Lord Mayor of Dublin, Mr. S. Nunan, Secretary, Department of External Affairs, Mr. D. McDonald, Chief de Protocol, do., and Dr. P. J. Hernon, City Manager.
The many present included: Right Rev. Monsignor Benelli, Charge of Affaires ad interim at the Nuncio; Right Rev. Monsignor B. Wall, Director of Women's Seminary, Surrey, a former classmate of the Nuncio in Rome; Very Rev. Hubert Quinn, O.F.M., Provincial, Merchants' Quay; Rev. Cormac Daly, O.F.M., Guardian, do.; Very Rev. J. O'Doherty, C.M., Provincial, and Very Rev. W. Purcell, C.M., President, All Hallows College; Very Rev. P. O'Carroll, O.S.Sp., Provincial; Very Rev. J. C. Fitzgerald, O.Carm., Provincial, Carmelite College, Terenure; Very Rev. J. Roche, O.S.A., representing Very
Rev. Father Provincial; Very Rev. M. Fitzsimons, O.M.I., Provincial, Inchicore. The Archbishop of Dublin was accompanied by his secretary, Rev. Dr. Michael P. O'Donnell.
U.S. CHAPLAINS
The American chaplains, all wearing the uniform of the American armed forces, were: Father Gready, whose people came from Roscommon and Sligo; Rev. R. Meade, who was born in Fiddown, Co. Kilkenny; Rev. J. P. Condon, whose mother was born in Mayo; Rev. A. J. O'Reilly, whose grandfather came from Galway; Rev. F. X. Murphy, whose people belonged to Cork and Roscommon, and Rev. Denis Moore, whose family came from Fermoy.
Among the general attendance were: Mr. S. MacBride, S.C., T.D.; Mr. P. J. Burke, T.D.; Mr. E. T. McCarron, chairman, Aer Lingus; Mr. J. F. Dempsey, general manager, do.; Col. W. P. Delamer, airport manager; Senator H. J. Barniville.
After the reception at the airport, the Nuncio, accompanied by Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid, was driven in the latter's car to the Nuncioture. Today he will pay a formal visit to the Minister for External Affairs at Greave House, and at mid-day to Greave House, and present his credentials to President O'Kelly at Arus and Uachtarain.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, who is aged 56, was formerly Regent of the Nuncioture in Bucharest, but was expelled by the Communists in 1950.

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Nuncio Inspects Guard of Honour
The Apostolic Nuncio, Most Rev. G. P. O'Hara, inspecting the Guard of Honour, drawn from the 2nd Battn., under Lieut. A. Cunningham, at Arus an Uachtarain.
FEELINGS of the deepest emotion in coming to the land of his forefathers were expressed by His Excellency Most Rev. Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Archbishop of Savannah-Atlanta, when he presented his Credentials yesterday as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland to the President at Arus an Uachtarain. The ceremony was attended with all the pomp ordained by protocol for such solemn occasions.
The Taoiseach, Mr. de Valera, and the Minister for External Affairs, Mr. Aiken, together with the Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, Most Rev. Dr. J. C. McQuaid, were present at the ceremony.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, in an address, said: "It is my privilege and honour to present to Your Excellency the Letter of Credence by which His Holiness Pope Plus XII, my August Sovereign, has graciously deigned to accredit me to Your Excellency as Apostolic Nuncio."
"In the execution of this most welcome duty, may I say how deeply moved I am to have task of representing the Holy See in this blessed
land of Ireland, whose Constitution is inspired by a frankly Catholic spirit, whose Government is closely linked by the most cordial and devoted ties to the See of Peter, and where the Catholic Church stands in pride of place, based in the will of a faithful people, inspired since the days of the National Apostle by a quite singular allegiance to the Vicar of Christ upon earth.
PEOPLE PRAISED
"May I say, Mr. President, that it is with feelings of the deepest emotion and intense joy that I have come back to the beloved land of my forefathers, a land ever distinguished by the heroism and generosity of its faithful people
loyal in their suffering in persecutions' darkest days, splendidly truth and principle in the present-day world of changing values, and noble as of yore in their generosity of whole world.
"In endeavouring to acquit myself of the high mission entrusted to me by the Holy Father to strengthen the traditional bonds which unite Ireland, its Government and people to the Chair of Peter, I presume to count on Your Excellency's benevolent support, so graciously accorded to my predecessors, and I beg to
address to you on this happy occasion my sentiments of deep good wishes and prayers for the good health and happiness of Your Excellency and your gracious lady, and for the prosperity and happiness of the Ireland."
The President, speaking in Irish, said that he was happy to receive from His Excellency the Letters by which the Supreme Pontiff had graciously accredited him as Apostolic Nuncio to Ireland.
"It is with feelings of the greatest pleasure and satisfaction," continued the President, "that I extend to Your Excellency my happiest and auspicious occasion, as well as the heartfelt and affectionate welcome of the people of Ireland for the representation of the beloved Vicar of Christ on earth."
"But I have little doubt that your Excellency must have already sensed the warmth and sincerity of the feelings awakened in Irish hearts by Your Excellency's arrival on Irish soil."
"We rejoice in the homecoming of our race, who has been called by our Beloved Holy Father, in His benevolence, to be His personal representative among us."
"Your Excellency will be consoled to find that the deep attachment of the Catholic people of Ireland to the Holy See which has prevailed through the centuries since the time of St. Patrick is, at this time of general anxiety, as deep and as strong as ever, both at home and in the Catholic missions men and women are to be found."
"I hope that Your Excellency will enjoy every blessing and happiness in the course of your mission, strong in the assurance that you will receive every assistance from the Irish Government and people and from myself to enable you to achieve the high purpose of your office in the interests of the Holy See and of Ireland."
"I thank Your Excellency too for your my wife and myself, and I would ask Your Excellency to convey an expression of our humble filial devotion to the August Sovereign, His Holiness Pope Plus XII."
At the conclusion of the Apostolic Nuncio warmly and then introduced for External Affairs, the Minister of Dublin and the various members of his suite, which included Mr. M. McDunphy, Secretary to the President; Mr. M. Moynihan, Secretary to the Government; Mr. S. Nunan, Secretary to the Department of External Affairs and several Aides-de-Camp.
The Archbishop was accompanied by his Secretary, Rev. C. Mangan, Very Rev. Monsignor M. Curran, P.P., Aughrim St., and Rev. E. Gallen, D.D. Chaplain to the President.
As he emerged from Arus an Uachtarain after the ceremony, the Apostolic Nuncio, who was accompanied by Right Rev. Monsignor G. Bennelli, Secretary to the Nunclature, and Right Rev. Monsignor Kirk, was greeted by the Papal Anthem played by the Army No. 1 Band under Lieut. E. Callaghan.
His Excellency then inspected the Guard of Honour, drawn from the 2nd Battn., under Lieut. A. Cunningham which had received him on his arrival, Lieut. J. Phelan was in charge of the colours.
On his journey to and from Arus an Uachtarain in a State car flying the Papal and National colours, the Nuncio was accompanied by Mr. R. McDonald, Chief de Protocol, and a motor-cycle escort of honour.

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NUNCIO VISITS
MANSION HOUSE
The Papal Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, stopped to allow a woman kiss his ring when he paid an official visit to the Mansion House, Dublin, yesterday. The Lord Mayor, Senator A. Clarkin, is on the right, and Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bennelli, Secretary to the Nunciature, is in the centre.
HIS EXCELLENCY, Most Rev. Dr. Gerald P. O'Hara, Nuncio Apostolic to Ireland, paid an official visit to the Mansion House, Dublin, yesterday, where he met the Lord Mayor (Sen. A. Clarkin), the City Manager (Mr. P. J. Hernon) and members and officials of the Corporation.
On arrival, the Nuncio, who was accompanied by Monsignor Benelli Secretary to the Nunciature, was received by the Lord Mayor, who welcomed him in Irish and English, and Lady Mayoress. The Nuncio replied and imparted his blessing.
With the Lord Mayor was his chaplain, Rev. B. Harley, C.C., St. Mary's, Haddington Road.
There was a guard of honour of Fire Brigade men.
Clergy present included Rev. J. Redmond, P.P., SS. Michael's and John's; Rev. Jas. Robinson, Adm., Westland Row; Rev. S. Clancy, C.C., do.; and Rev. D. Daly, C.C., Booterstown

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Papal Nuncio's Mission To Communist Bucharest
Irish Independent 12/3/52
In this photograph, taken at the Nunciature in Bucharest in November, 1947, His Excellency, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, is seated (centre) with Archbishop Alexander Cisar, of Bucharest (left), and Archbishop Valerio Trojan Frentiu, of Oradea-Mare. Standing (from left): Bishop John Suciu, Administrator Apostolic, Archdiocese of Fagaras-Alba Giulia; Bishop Anthony Durcovici, of Jassi; Bishop Mark Glaser, former Administrator Apostolic of Jassi (dead); Bishop John Scheffler, of Satu Mare; Bishop Augustine Pacha, of Timisoara; Bishop Julius Hossu, of Cluj-Gherla; Bishop Alexander Rusu, of Maramuree; Bishop Basil Aftenie, Auxiliary Bishop of Fagaras-Alba Giulia; Bishop John Bolan, of Lugoj; Bishop Aaron Marton, of Alba-Giulia (Latin Rite); Monsignor Guido Del Mestri, Udisore of the Nunciature; Monsignor Zoltan Lengyel, Administrator Apostolic for the Armenians.
By a Special Correspondent
His Excellency the Apostolic Nuncio entered the choir in the Pro-Cathedral last Friday and saw on each side of him the bishops assembled to welcome him, his thoughts went back to that November day little before than four years ago when he had gathered together in the Nunciature in Bucharest all the Catholic bishops, Latin and Greek-Catholic, of Rumania.
The ten bishops pictured with Excellency in the photograph are, only two were still at liberty June, 1949. These two, indeed, were kept under police surveillance in remote parts of the entry, but at least they had appealed the prison sentences met to their brother bishops.
ICATE MISSIONS
Archbishop O'Hara's first diplomatic appointment came shortly after the war. At that time the Holy Considered that envoys of American nationality might be more probable to the Governments of Armenia than envoys of a group of brilliant American pops chosen for work in these delicate missions.
In 1946 he was nominated
to succeed Monsignor De Nigris, Nuncio to Albania, but the Albanian Government declared him to be persona non grata. A few months later, Monsignor Cassulo, Nuncio in Bucharest, was expelled from Rumania on a trumped-up charge of plutonia with General Antonescu.
Monsignor O'Hara was appointed to Bucharest in May, 1946, but, though accepted by the Government, he found it impossible to get an entry visa into Rumania. He was on the high seas on the way back to his diocese of Savannah towards the end of 1946 when this on his arrival in U.S., he returned immediately to Europe and took up duty in Bucharest in January, 1947.
COMMUNISTS' TACTICS
His first impression of Bucharest was that the new regime was tightening its grip by muzzling the Press and by dissolving all political parties opposed to the Communists. He noticed immediately the air of uneasiness created by the daily arrests of persons, suspected of being "undemocratic," and by the sustained and violent campaign carried on in the Press and on the radio against the Catholic Church and the Holy Father. Towards the end of 1947 King Michael was forced to abdicate and the Rumanian People's Republic was proclaimed.
When the new Rumanian Con-
stitution was published in March, 1948, it was found to be Communist through and through. Though it contained an article guaranteeing freedom of religion, this was completely nullified by a further provision that all religious denominations must have their Credo and "Statutes" of organisation and discipline "approved" by the State by November, 1949.
The price of "approval" was conformity to Communist doctrine and so was immediately out of the question for the Church.
Other articles of the Constitution struck at the roots of the Church's social system. Education was decreed to be the exclusive preserve of the State; likewise, social assistance. Hospitals, orphanages and similar institutions were taken out of private houses. Priests, nuns, and brothers were turned out of their schools and hospitals which were taken over by State officials.
PERSECUTION
The Minister of Public Worship first devoted his efforts to liquidating the Greek Catholic Church. In October, 1948, all the Greek Catholic Bishops were placed under arrest. The Greek Catholic Church was declared "outlawed," and all its churches were turned over to the Orthodox Church. Police methods were used to force Greek Catholic
Sisters to join Orthodox communities, but all refused.
Although all along the Church of the Latin Rite in Rumania was being persecuted, events took a new turn in 1949-50 when, with police support and police methods, efforts were made to form a "National" Catholic Church (of the Latin Rite) separated from the Holy See.
In spite of heavy pressure, the movement made little headway.
What the Government has succeeded in doing is this: the Catholics of Rumania are now deprived of almost all opportunity to practise their faith or to receive the Sacraments.
EXPULSION
On July 4, 1950, all members of the staff of the Nunciature were declared to be personae non gratae, and were given three days to leave the country. They were falsely charged with espionage.
Before leaving the country, Archbishop O'Hara lodged vigorous protests with the Government on account of the motives advanced for the expulsion order. His protest concluded with these dignified and confident words:
"With serene conscience the Apostolic Nunciature leaves the judgment of the truth of the charges made against it to the people of Rumania."

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NEW POST FOR PAPAL NUNCIO
Apostolic Delegate To Britain
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, who is in Rome at present. He is expected back in Dublin next week.
IT was announced at the Vatican yesterday that His Holiness the Pope had named Most Rev. Dr. Gerald Patrick O'Hara, Papal Nuncio to Ireland, as Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain. The post has been vacant since Most Rev. Dr. William Godfrey, who had filled it for 15 years, was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool last November.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1895, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, is son of Mr. Patrick James O'Hara. His mother's maiden name was Margaret Carney. Both his grandparents were from Co. Mayo. Educated at St. Joseph's High School, Philadelphia, he began at St. Charles' Seminary, Overbrook, Pennsylvania, in 1911. In 1918 he entered the Pontifical Seminary in Rome, where he was ordinarily two years later. He was Secretary to Cardinal Dougherty, Archbishop of Philadelphia, 1924-29; Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, 1929-35, and Bishop of Savannah and Atlanta from 1935.
[He will still be Bishop of Savannah and Atlanta.]
In 1946, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was appointed as Papal Nuncio to Bucharest. Before that he had been selected as Papal Envoy to Albania, but the Government there had refused to admit any Vatican representative.
ORDERED TO LEAVE
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was Regent of the Nunciature in Bucharest in 1950 when he and his staff were given three days notice to leave Rumania, the communist government there having given as their reason for the expulsion that "be had made use of his diplomatic position to interfere with the territorial affairs of the People Republic," and that at Rumania state trials and short time previously witnesses had linked Most Rev.
O'Hara with "a group of spies and traitors before the Court."
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara's reply was: "We have no interest in military or commercial information, as the Reds charged. Our sole interest was the welfare of the Church. For that we work, and for nothing else."
In November 1951, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara was named Nuncio to Ireland in succession to Most Rev. Dr. Ettore Felici, who died in May of that year. He arrived in Dublin on March 5, 1952, and presented his credentials to President O'Kelly two days later. In July, 1953, he was made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of the National University of Ireland.
SILVER JUBILEE
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara has just celebrated his episcopal silver jubilee in Rome, where he attended the Canonisation of Pope Pius X at St. Peter's. During his visit he was guest of Right Rev. Dr. O'Connor, Rector of the North American College in Rome. He was guest of honour at many receptions and was at the Roman Seminary (where he received his ecclesiastical education) the attendance including Cardinal Micara, Vicar General in Rome.
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Irish Independent, Saturday, June 26, 1954.
Freedom Of Limerick For Nuncio
Expressed Regret At Leaving Ireland
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, inspecting a military Guard of Honour at Limerick yesterday.
— Irish Independent Wire Photo.
"Irish Independent" Reporter
IT was hard leaving the Irish people, but he promised he would not be parted from them entirely because he would leave his heart behind in their beautiful land, said the Papal Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, in Limerick last night, expressing thanks to the Mayor (Ald. J. Carew, T.D.) and City Council for having conferred on him the freedom of the city. He said he would be leaving Ireland after some weeks to take up his duties as Apostolic Delegate in Great Britain, but he would never forget Ireland and its people.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara received a tumultuous welcome as he drove in state through beflagged streets to receive the Freedom of the City. The ceremony took place on an open-air platform in front of St. John's Cathedral close to the ancient, siege-battered gate where the Mayor and members of the Corporation welcomed the first Papal Nuncio to Ireland, Cardinal Rinuccini, in 1645.
In the Cathedral earlier. His Excellency was given a liturgical reception, and the Bishop of Limerick, Most Rev Dr. O'Neill, presented to him the Arthur Crucifix with its relic of the True Cross, which was offered to Cardinal Rinuccini in a similar ceremony more than 300 years ago.
As the Nuncio, accompanied by the Bishop, went to the high altar the enthusiasm of the crowd outside became so intense that a section of railing between the Cathedral gates collapsed under the weight of people.
Reaching in the Cathedral, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara thanked the bishop,
priests and people for their overwhelming welcome. Experiencing on all sides in Ireland, the tenderness and depth of the people's Catholic faith he could not help thinking of the words of St. Paul to the Romans: "Your faith is spoken of in the whole world."
Indeed, the faith of the Irish was spoken of throughout the entire world. There was no people quite like them for the strength of their Catholic faith.
Again and again going through the country he had been deeply moved by their piety, kindness and charity. Their love for the Holy Mass and the Blessed Mother of God, their respect for bishops and priests and the goodness of their lives was as a perfume, the good odour of Christ, sweetening the great world that had so much evil.
The Irish people had been faithful to the mission given them by God and were everywhere exemplars of the good Catholic faith. He had been deeply touched last Sunday by
a Corpus Christi procession in a poor section of Dublin city where the people knelt in the rain as God in the Blessed Sacrament came among them.
MAYOR'S ADDRESS
The Mayor, presenting the freedom of the city to the Nuncio, said that Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara had distinguished himself in the service of the Catholic Church behind the Iron Curtain, and had for years endured many insults and threats from the Communist Press and agents of persecution.
"The heroism with which he endured his many trials in these unhappy lands has won for him a very special place in the hearts of the Irish, whose forefathers starved upon the hillsides and spurned the inducement offered to them rather than forsake their Catholic faith," he said.
REMAND IN WATERFORD ROBBERY CHARGE
James Houlthan, British ex-serviceman, of 32 Keane's Road, Waterford, was at Waterford remanded on bail for two weeks charged with having, while armed with a knife, robbed Josephine McNamara, barmaid of 30/- or 22 in the Corner Bar, Morgan St., Waterford, on June 19.
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Irish Independent, Wednesday, July 28, 1954.
DUBLIN'S PARTING
GIFT TO THE
PAPAL NUNCIO
THE Papal Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, who will leave Ireland on Friday to take up his new post as Apostolic Delegate to Britain, was granted the Freedom of Dublin at a ceremony in the Mansion House Round Room yesterday. A Guard of Honour of firemen awaited the Nuncio when he arrived at the Mansion House, and he received a warm welcome as he was being escorted to his seat.
The Lord Mayor, Ald. A. Byrne, T.D., said they were keenly appreciative of the honour conferred on their country by the Holy Father in sending his personal representative to live amongst them. It was, however, with particular pleasure and satisfaction that they learned of the appointment by the Supreme Pontiff of one born in the great Republic of the West—which had so close ties with our own country—and also one of their kinsmen.
"During your stay in Ireland, which—and I feel I am re-echoing the sentiments of the Irish people—has been all too short, you have endeared yourself in a special way to us all; and your departure will, have come to look upon you as a very great friend," said Ald. Byrne.
In a further tribute to Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara, the Lord Mayor said that not content with the performance of the duties appropriate to his high office he had undertaken a programme of activity, travelling widely over the country to visit many of our towns and cities.
HIGHEST HONOUR
The Lord Mayor said that when the City Council learned of His Excellency's new appointment they felt that they should mark his departure from the country by offering him the highest honour in their power, the Honorary Freedom of the City.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara said that it would be difficult for him to put into words the reality and fullness and gratitude that was in his heart for the honour conferred upon him.
Since he arrived in Dublin as Nuncio on March 4, 1952, he had been the recipient of so many marks of kindness and benevolence and friendship that he could not count them. The treasured by him as long as God gave him life.
FOR HOLY FATHER
He accepted and welcomed the many marks of kindness and courtesy shown him during his too-short stay in Ireland, because he knew they were directed to and meant for the Holy Father and not for himself.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara went on—
"And so in the name of the Holy Father I express gratitude to the honour that has come to me for day. It is one more mark of that tender devotion, affection and loyalty that the people of Ireland and towards the Vicar of Christ. Again and again travelling about Ireland, in its great cities, in its little villages and hamlets, in its countryside and on its mountains, that devotion I have seen manifested everywhere, a deeply moving devotion."
It had once been said that Dublin was a city in the state of grace. Every Irishman, said His Excellency, was a born theologian and knew what that meant.
In a tribute to the city of Dublin he referred to the pride owners took in keeping their property in the cleanliness of its streets, and to the cleanliness of its streets.
WARM-HEARTED PEOPLE.
He would be leaving Dublin on Friday, and it would not be easy to say farewell. "I will not be leaving entirely," he added. "because I know I will be leaving a large portion of my heart in this beautiful island whose people are so good and so warm-hearted."
Living here, the people did not realise how much faith and goodness was about them, and they did not realise the treasure they had. One had to go to other parts of the world to see the materialism and the quest for riches that was so prevalent.
His Excellency was presented by the Lord Mayor, on his own behalf and on behalf of the City Council, with a silver challoe which is a replica of the Ardagh Challoe.
The scroll conferring the freedom of the city upon His Excellency was read by the City Manager, Dr. P. J. Hernon.
The Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev. Dr. Archbishop of the Taoiseach, Mr. Costello, were among the several hundred guests who watched the ceremony. Members of the clergy, Siochana, Judiciary, Army, Garda Dublin Corporation, Dun Laoghaire Borough Corporation, and of religious and academic bodies were also among those present.
Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara signing the Roll of Freeman watched by the Lord Mayor, Ald. A. Byrne, T.D.

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New Nuncio
due in Dublin
to-day
MOST Rev. Dr. Alberto Levame, the new Papal Nuncio to Ireland will arrive at Dublin Airport from Rome this evening. He will replace Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara who is now Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain.
Most Rev. Dr. Levame was born in Monaco in 1881. He had been Apostolic Nuncio to Egypt since 1949, and prior to that was Apostolic Nuncio in Uruguay.

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New Nuncio
Presents
Credentials
THE Irish people had displayed from very early times an attachment to the Faith and a devotion to the Church hardly exceeded in ardour and sincerity by any other nation in the world, said President O'Kelly, when he received the credentials of the Apostolic Nuncio, Most Rev. Dr. Alberto Levame, Archbishop of Chersonesus in Zechia, at Aras an Uachtaráin to-day.
The President, who spoke in Irish, said he was voicing the sentiments of the entire Irish people, when he extended to the Nuncio a most warm welcome to Ireland.
A sincere and heartfelt welcome awaited the Nuncio among the people of Ireland, to whom the arrival of the personal representative of the Holy Father was not merely a ceremonial event, but an occasion of deep national satisfaction, of popular rejoicing and of humble gratitude to God Who sustained and preserved their Faith throughout centuries of trial.
Dr. O'Hara
"I wish to take this opportunity of paying tribute to Your Excellency's eminent predecessor, Most Rev. Dr. O'Hara," said the President. "He will always be remembered for the qualities of wisdom, humility and kindliness which distinguished him and for the unfailing zeal and devotion which he displayed in sustaining and strengthening our relations with the Holy See."
Important Mission
The President expressed the hope that the Nuncio would enjoy every blessing and happiness in the execution of his important and holy mission, and he assured him of the most zealous co-operation of the Irish Government and himself.
Most Rev. Dr. Levame, in presenting his letters patent, said that the high commission which the Holy Father, Pope Pius XII, deigned to entrust to his care, fulfilled his most lawful pride.
"I beg God," he said, speaking in English, "to make me always more
deserving of this trust by exerting my most sincere endeavours for the maintenance and the consolidation of the excellent relations happily existing between the Holy See and your country.
"I beg also to forward to Your Excellency the blessing of His Holiness for the prosperity of Ireland, the Island of Saints, the Catholic Church's devoted and beloved child, carrying everywhere throughout the world, into her own soul and by means of her activities the cross of Jesus Christ and our Holy Faith."
The Attendance
The Taoiseach, Mr. J. A. Costello, and the Archbishop of Dublin, Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid, were present at the ceremony, together with Mr. Cosgrave, Minister for External Affairs; Mr. M. Moynihan, Secretary to the Government; Mr. S. Nunan, Secretary Department of External Affairs; Mr. M. McDunphy, Secretary to the President; Mr. T. J. Horan, Chef de Protocol, and Mr. T. F. O'Sullivan, Department of External Affairs.
The Nuncio was accompanied by Rt. Rev. Monsignor G. Alibrandi, Counsellor of the Nunciature.
As the Nuncio appeared at the door of the Aras the No. 2 Army Band, under Capt. R. B. Kealy, played the Marcia Pontificia, the Papal anthem, and a Guard of Honour from the 2nd Eastern Battalion, under Lt. J. Phelan, presented arms. The Nuncio afterwards inspected the Guard of Honour.
He was accompanied to and from Aras an Uachtaráin by an Escort of Honour from the 4th Motor Cycle Squadron under Lt. R. McCorley.
The President was attended by his aides-de-camp. Col. S. O'Sullivan and Comdt. M. J. Heffron, and other aides present were Comdt. G. E. Walsh, Comdt. G. O Foghludha, Capt. Skehan, and Capt. T. McNamara.
Most Rev. Dr. McQuaid was attended by Rev. L. Martin, Archbishop's House and Rev. Dr. E. Gallen, chaplain to the President.