he was ordained to the priesthood in the Eternal City, by
Cardinal Franson. Then returning to the United States, he labored at
different times, as assistant pastor in Georgetown, Md., Washington, D.
C., Philadelphia, Pa., Boston, Mass., Troy, N. Y., and Alexandria, Va.

The Rev. John S. Flynn, pastor of St. Ann's Church, Cranston, R. I.,
died of pneumonia, at the parochial residence, on the 10th December, in
the forty-ninth year of his age, and the eighteenth of his ordination.
He was a native of the County Cavan, Ireland, and came to this country
when eleven years of age. His early education was under the supervision
of his uncle, the late Rev. John Smith, of Danbury, Conn., with whom he
resided. He continued his studies at Mount St. Mary's, Emmittsburg, Md.
After finishing his classical course, he spent some time at St. Sulpice
Seminary, Baltimore, and completed his theological studies at the
Provincial Seminary, Troy, N. Y.

The death, November 8, of Very Rev. Wm. J. Halley, V. G., Cincinnati, is
greatly lamented. In him, for more than twenty years, we have personally
known a noble, pure, devoted and beautiful character. Born at Tramore,
Ireland, he was taken off at forty-eight.

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PRESERVATION OF A SAINT'S BODY.--The body of the late venerable G. B.
Vianney, Cure d'Ars, was exhumed in the presence of the Bishop of Belley
and Mgr. Casorara, _promotor fidei_, and of all those interested in the
cause of his beatification. The body was found entire, as it was buried,
and was recognizable at the first glance. The flesh and hair still
adhered to the upper part of the head; the hands, shrivelled, preserved
their full form--the sacerdotal vestments had undergone no alteration.
To give an idea of the enthusiasm displayed by the people, we may say
that every object of devotion to be bought in the shops of Ars was sold,
so that the people might bear away with them a relic that had touched
the holy body. Ars seemed to have recovered its former happy days, when
pilgrims flocked thither, and penitents thronged the venerable cure's
confessional.

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LORD CHARLES THYNNE, second son of the Marquis of Bath, has during the
week received the tonsure and three minor orders at the hands of the
Cardinal Archbishop in the chapel of the archbishop's house,
Westminster. Lord Charles is an ex-clergyman of the Church of England,
and is close on seventy years o