Obituary Notice
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Fr. Patrick Fagan (1860-1913) Brigid's Church, Marrickvi.le, = held in St. i Monday morning, Ven. Archpriest Col, i V.P., presided, assisted by Very Rey. lJ. P. Moynagh, Vie., and tha Very Rev. P. Byrne, PLP. The celebrant of the Re- —T +++ Jaw id. “43. iquiem Mass was the Rev. Father Bo rnard, Tr: AC - 'U.P., the deacon being the Very Rev. Fa- A Notable Missionary Priest. ‘ther Francis, C.P., the sub-deacon Rev. eee Vather Ignatius, GP, and the Rey. Father i “tingent “te the Transvaal, but no chaplains! Ualistus, C.P., master of ceremonies. ‘The The jast of the teble band of pioneer Pas were titken. When the second contingent chauters were the Revs. J. M. Kelly and sionist priests who founded the community! in Marrickville, New South Wates. to his eternal rewatd on Sunday afternoon, in the person of the Rev. Father Patrick Fagan. Marrickville, Catholic and Catholic, ‘sorrowed when the news wis) noised abroad that Father Patrick had died.! He was extremely populir on Qt sits. al father to the children movetneuts connected with sparish work, the little ones the faithful parishioners there will miss his inspiring perstinality. Father Patrick was born ut Duban in Jury, 1860, envered the Passionist Urder at the ear.y age of 16 years, aud served* tis novitiate at Broadway, Worcestershire, iungiand. He was protessed in 18/6, and was ordhined at St. Joseph’s, Higngate, passed, nohi- and a guide“in ad’ and London, m 1883. He devoted himser to the work of giving missions in Engiand; Scotland, atid areand. He and three other members of the Order caine to Australia in 1887, and estabished a branch of the Pas-' siotist fathers at Marrickville. On the’ feast of the Presentation in November, the Order celebrated its twettby-fifth anniver- sary of settlement in Marrickville, and Ia: ther tatrick, the onty surviving member of the pioneer prop, was warmly congratulat- ed on the splendtd work achieved. When the Boer war broke ott: Father Pat- rick volunteered to go with the first con-.,- was decided on, Father Patrick again otf i-' ip, Phelan, the responses being, made by the ed his services. This time he was snecess- ergy present, among whom were: Vergy: rnor to his departure in January, Roys. P. B. Kennedy (Commissary-Provin- 1900, Father Patrick was teudered a pubic cial of the Fraucisean Fathers), P. Treand. carewell in the local Town Hall, and’ pre- (pyoyincial of the Sacred Heart Mathers), J. sented with a putse of sovereigns. Practi- Field, M.S.UL, J. 1. Begley, O.F AL, P. cally throughout the long and dreary war, Keating (Rector of St, Tynatins’ Colles) Father Patrick held fast to hard canipaign- P. Piguet, S.M.; Rev., Fathers T! Barry. m@ Many a sorely troubled hedbt| Gas ‘AA Comaskes, ie Cahili, SI, EB. J. lightened by the works of comfuit and spiri- Sydea, SY, J. Fur'ond, J. Hunt, CME, P- dual advice. tendpred by the genial inission- 73 Lawler, 0.1. Mg BE. OWriek Dro Tuo- ary priest. Jratigtie and hardships iwete mey, EB. Rohan, ~ M. Rohatt, J. I. met smlingly, but imisfortune fell to Father Q' Driscoll, J. Grace, J. 8. Joyeg, OF AL, Patrick's lot there, when he conttacted ‘dia- RK. Fonerdan, J. Walsh (Gunnedah), M. betes, which, aflet many years of sufftitig, (> Donuell, J. 8 M‘Namava, O.I.M., D. ended in bis de¢th.. He returned to Syd- ('Subivan, G. P. Birch, OFM, J. Cue ney, and resided atterwards at the Retreat, ret, R. Halping J. M‘Donald, J. Peoples, Marrickvil.e, During the last few years his! ay ‘Troy, MSIL Among the repre- work chiefly consist_d 0? stiperintending tlie sentatives of the various socicties present missions tarotghout the State, and it. this were the following members of the AEC. respect his services were largely sougit. . A! Guild: Bros. EB. J. Taylor, J.P. (warden), couple of weeks ago his condition became has J. OS: ‘tani (deputy-warden), Charles Glass ab. serious, and Father VPutriek entered — the ; ; ; . Lewisham Hospital. He was spirituaiiy at. (seeretary), A. Masters, HM. W. Quinn, ©. tended by the Rev. Fathers Phelan, p.p., unt, W. Eppel; Messrs. A. J. Macauley, N. Larkin, BR. Stapleton, J. O'Meara, and J. Sherin, Ou Saturday Jast it was Dr. _ ; ‘ | seen that the end was at hand, and he lin- J- Olapham, W. Waddock. The Hibernian gered until Sunday aftetndon, when he Society was represented by Bros. G. Den- passed peacefully aivay, fortified by the last My (secretary), G. Cheadle, P.Y., J. O'Mal- rites of the Church at the hands of the: ley, Freister, and J. Stapeton; Messrs. W. Very Rev. father Chitte, CLP. Hartley and C. Lunt represented the St. ; a ; Vincent de Pau! Society; and Mr. RB. RELIGIOUS SOLEMN OBSEQUIES. O'Donnell (president, men’s branch of | the At the Solemn ‘Office: and Requiem - Mess: Sa ered Heart Sos iety), Wf. Connolly (church.
committee). Slany persotis were unable to gain admittance into the church to assist in the religious ceremonies. Many non-Catho- lics attended, including an Anglidan minis- ter. Throughout the day hundreds visited the church, where the -body was lying in state, and prayers from grie!-stricken pari- shioners ascended to the throne on high for the repose of the soul of the zealous mis- sionary. And so on .until evening, wen arrangements were made for the fumera! procession. At 5.80 prayers for the d:ad were recited in thd ‘chtiteh by the Very Rev. Father Francis, O.1., assisted by Fathers Calistus, O.P., Ipnatitis, :C.P., and Bernard, G.P. Feather Pranclé, C.P., in a brief ad- dress, dwelt. upon the: lovable and unassum- ing, disposition of tlie deceased priest, who ‘wag especially dear t6’ the children of the: parish: At the close: of ‘the religious cere. monics the funeral left for the Marrickville station, en route for Gowhburn. The pro-| cession was headed by the @ergy, then came | the hearse, whieh was followed in order by: | Crois-bearer and aco.ytes, St. Brigid’s Cail- dren of Mary, women’s bratich o7 the Hiber- , nian A.C.B. Society, the women’s branch of the A.H.O, Guild, the men’s branch of the A.H.C. Guild, the mof’s branch or the Hibernian A.C.B. Society, the Boys’ Guild, and the Sacred Heart Sodalities attached to the parish and members of the St. Vin- cent do Paul Society. More than a thou- sand persons followed the cortege, while thousands thronged the roubs of travel. At Marrickville the coffin was transferred to the train and taken to Sydney. Hundreds journeyed to the ‘Cotttral Railway Station and waited until the 8.10 train left with the remains for Gonlbnrn. Very Rev. Fae] ther Francis, C.P., Mathers Ignatius, C.P., ¢ and Calistus, C.P., were passengers by the j train On Tresdav morning a Solemn Re- 8 quiem Mass was celebrated at Gottiburn, and the remains were then interred in St. ' Mary’s Mount cemetery. The funeral arrangements, including the embalming of the body, were efficiently car- ; ried out by Mi. Bull, junr.— RP. i 4 REGRET IN BRISBANE. News was received in Brisbane on Sun- day (writes our Brisbane correspondent) of | the ‘death of the Rev. Father Patrick in | Sydnry. Father Patrick was a well-known i missioner of the Passionist Order, and has| given many successful missions in Queens- - land, and his mony friends wiil be sorry to’ hear of his death. ee enarcaspnamramcnaransenaad br-~wsenemrannannomntrecenrecesamieasea ra} ! THE LATE FATHER PATRICK, c.P.
Source: Obituary Notices, Provincial Archive, St Joseph's Province. Passionist Congregation.