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| CARDINAL McCABE'S MONUMENT, GLASNEVIN. -Cardinal-Archbishop McCabe, although an eminent and very learned churchman, was not by any mean politically popular with the vast majority of his Catholic fellow-countrymen, because, like his predecessor, Cardinal-Archbishop Cullen, he was not in sympathy with the national sentiment, and was given to the repression of active patriotism wherever his spiritual jurisdiction extended. The majority of the Irish people, while intensely Catholic, in the religious sense, resent political interference of a hostile character, from their prelates and priests. So long as the latter fight with them, they make no complaint. But if any of the clergy take the English side of "the war of centuries" the people, very naturally, make protest. Cardinal McCabe, whose Christian name was Edward, was born in the city of Dublin in 1816, and was educated at Maynooth college. He was ordained a priest in 1839, and in 1877, was consecrated a Bishop and assistant to the aged Cardinal Cullen. In 1879, he was appointed Archbishop of Dublin and, in 1882, was made a Cardinal-priest by the Pope. He died February 10,1885, and was succeeded as Archbishop by the Right Rev. Dr. Walsh, who on account of his patriotic proclivities, has not reached the dignity of the cardinalate, to which his learning and piety entitle him. The monument to Cardinal McCabe, depicted in the sketch, is one of the most striking objects in Glasnevin cemetery. |
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