Obituary Notice
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t T is with deep regret that we chronicle the i death of Very Rev. Fr. Paul Cyril (O'Doherty), C.P., Second Provincial Con- sultor of St. Patrick’s Province, which occurred on June 29th, 1946, after a comparatively brief illnss.—~--— Born in Clones, Co. Monaghan, on November 5th, 1889,. Patrick Joseph .O’Doherty was educated at St; Macartan’s College, Monaghan, ‘and later graduated at Queen’s University, Bel- fast. Keenly interested in athleties in his student days, he was a junior. Soccer football international, and later played for Belfast Celtic. After graduation, he went to St. Patrick’s College, Maynooth,to study for the priesthood. Some time afterwards, feeling that his vocation was for’ the religious life rather than for the diocesan clergy, he entered the Passionist Novitiate at St. Gabriel’s Retreat, The Graan, Enniskillen, where he made his re- ligious profession on April 28th, 1919, the feast of St. Paul of the Cross. On the completion of his ecclesiastical studies he was ordained at the Pro-Cathedral, Dublin, on December 23rd, 1922. His first appointment was to the professorial staff of St. Patrick’s Retreat, Belfast, the Passionist Preparatory College, where after some years he became Superior. In 1935 he was elected Rector of St. Mungo’s Retreat, Glasgow, and six years later he became a member of the Provincial Curia upon his election as Second Consultor, an office to which he was re-clected in 1944. HE late Fr. Paul Cyril was a most popular figure both within and withont the monas- tery. His cheerful demeanour, his infectious spirit of happiness, made him a welcome and genial companion. Charitable in thonght and speech, he was never heard to say an unkind word about anyone. All through his life he maintained his youthful love of athletics and took the keenest interest in sporting and foot- ball activities. Since the greater part of his religious lite was spent in educational and administrative capacities, Fr. Paul Cyril did not figure pro- minently upon the missionary staff, although he displayed a marked aptitude for the distinctive Passionist work of missions and retreats. As Fr. Paul Cyril O'Doherty (1889-1946) Per FR. PAUL CYRIL, C.P. é The late Fr. Paul Cyril, 0.P. a confessor for nuns, his assiduous devotion and wise, charitable guidanee made him a much- sought figure. , : FOR some time past he had been in failing’ health, against which he fought a brave but losing battle. He accepted the verdict of the doctors with the utmost calmness and resig- nation, and spent his last days in almost unin- ‘terrupted prayer and spiritual exercises. By his death at the comparatively early age of fifty- six, the Passionist Congregation has suffered a— deep loss. The obsequies, at which Rt. Rev. Mgr. Dunne, P.P., V.G., presided, were attended by a large and representative congregation of clergy snd laity. The Solemn Requiem Mass was cele- brated by Rev. Fr. Raymund, C.P., a cousin of the deceased. - ; . R. I. P.
Source: Obituary Notices, Provincial Archive, St Joseph's Province. Passionist Congregation.