Obituary Notice
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Fr. PANCRAS Byrne (1870-1930) ; Ra rie te tN Sate am ie ee Um Te Hp Na Sl kr cag ML BON ee Ae dt st ee “Obituary Kotice of the late Fr. Paneraa of the seven Dolouras fae Uneer tainty and ¢ha unknowm adcounstancee of death have always madea profound impression on thea minds of thoughtifwd ron aa | ' @1l aged. And thud it da that Thome a KRempde gives wo a Suir y (of hia reflentions on thia subjeat whieh = notwithotanding all our modern dnprovements and cenronionces = are as true today as they wore in the days of 4 Kempis hingelfs "How often hast thot heard | 4t related® ba oxyo * tint such a one wan Blain by the aword, anothen Was drowned, another falling fron on ng oraxe his neek; thig man. died at the table, that othor cama to hie end when he was at plays. Thug death do the on! of ally and man'a life passes ouddenly Like a: shadow, Guth thoughta ag these must hare oerurrad to the minde of many of the Religious of our Province when on the ends Marek the vad neva resohed them of the death of Pre Panoraa, oo : Pe Panoras of the Sevan Poloure < formerly known by hie baptia« «mad name of John Gerald byrne « was born in Dublin on lot Dacenber in the year 1070. He passed his boyhood in his native aity with | hia parentos and ha waa aduested ot the Jesuit Coliege Belvedere, of © whioh he aver retainod grate menordiog. © than bie resolution was. taken 0¢ be a priest in a yoligious Order, he adleated the Tagatons ‘iat Qongrogation,anterad the Passloniss fevitlate in the wonth of Ootover, 1886; and on the firet day of Movember in the following year. he made bis Relichous Profession at St.Saviour's Setreat Broadsay, Wores. “Bassing next to the house of otudies he completed hie madlee>” <-siastioal eourse; and on the Ath, Horenber 1095 he was erdained by Cardinal Vaughan at 6t.Joveph's Retreat Highgate, London. co , He remained attached to the Nlehgate Germmity for some tine after his ordination, and wa thén transferred to Yaroham Porsetehig While ot Varahen he did very valuable pioneer work in cornmeadtion with a small miseion whiten badd just been aterted at Bwanage eainiy. for the eonventenes of vioiterd fa tra séa-udde during the bummer |. sontha. Ho was, moreover, an iduivable ayaliet) and ha often trarel« “led aver long distaneds on hia bieyele to curry the sengelstionn of religion to gone noglented soul, or to assiet ona of the divagsan: priaste who waa eng gad dn. tie work of spreading. the sight ef: Paith eo in some ronote district of Doraotshives Suysequ@ibly he as appoin- «tad to St.Sariour's Retreat roadway, and later te at Mary's Retreal, Care then Wa ag » In these places ha was pagqulariy oneaged dn ante ~iva duties, besides attanding faithfully to tha exeroaiaes of the Religious Comuythy. The last yeara of big dite vere spent at ota. Yaul’o Retrant Mount Arguo, Publine _ In his raligious dife fr. Fanoras wae ever pleasant and agrae~ “able; and though be aloays teok w lively interest in everything that wad going on, he was yever known to be guilty of ary iniieore- «tion of speeoh whidh sould have dons the longt injury to another _ porgon's character. In tho ordinary obgervandes of the Comounity he was moat farvent and pequlsr; and he wae aopeddally attentive te mdi the duties of choir both alghh and day. He wae naturally eare~ - «ful and trugai in hia havite; ond he aultivatad the virtue of pove “arty in suoh a say that tha perfention toa whieh he brought Le ag- “naped the observation of hie Fellowaredicloug. Nie had for person “a1 wants, and he indulged in ud duaurdes except the bath. ~ Dependdn a fs rs ER es UM oy
entirely ‘on the courcge of Providenca, undue gohiottude for the needs (of the Future never troubled thes | had loarne) to gavere him for tia einpie and ahtidiinea platy, for hia Of affiiation, for hiv tender solioltude for the welfare of tha poor, _ bie oharity and devotednaas. In fast it vay only after hig daath end came yother unerpootedly; and by a moreiful providence, perhapa . Bleep. n a e eg me “People of thie outaide wordd who boew Yr. Panerag intimately Kind and gentle dispogition, for hie deep and singers sympathy in time and abvove all for tho Caithful and belpful seasietance whiah he aavaye (9 eave to the giek and the dying. any ef those whe ware asausinted with him wrote in letters of sorndolengse te hie brether Fre Berdhnane to gay that they had Jost a row) friend in the death of Fre Paneraa, and that ha had left on their minds deep and ineffaeaable memories of. - that his penerous soul was fully reveaLed tn 411 ite tenderness aud HOMEATEL ON» an ite unfeiened eimplioity and unavtrudive holingsy. =e OURR he hadtnot Baan 4h Héormad Hoalsn’ for gone binis hia ae thet was the way most agreeable to his pasuliar apiritual and tompear« ~amoental dispagition., On Saturdey Marah lot. he sald Mase for 4 7 special intention and for tho lash time, Me any the dootor during — the day but he did not heap to hig room, | On Saturday night before roing te bed he said in bie waual quaint and ainpde wayt? I think 46. would ba a goot thing for mo to make a genersl confegeion". His: done: fagsor wo adoordingly oalled te his room and tha confession wae made, after whieh he petired quietly to rast. Gn the following morning tha Community learned with very doap emotion and regret that Fre Paneras- bad pasood out of thio ilfe dur ing the ndghty and Presumably, an his. LB ~ ‘the Onaaqules avd Anternont of Pr. Fanotas took plane ao Mount Aca, Dublin on 4th. Sarah 1930.. Amongeat those present were | the Ralietous Toamindty, gome of the seaudar and regular olerey, and @ Jargé number of friends ant relativég, The Celebrant of the Bagg. was Very Rove Fr. Sebagtian, Provinoiadiy Tencon, Reva Fe, Barchmane; Subdoasons Rev Tr. Jeremfahs amt the aeoter of Goremnonted, Bats tre - Ediund « oS "eB ah a le i ; Adrian of tha Beven Daldurys, ee ; Heater, Maron Aft the 1940,
Source: Obituary Notices, Provincial Archive, St Joseph's Province. Passionist Congregation.