duties, ever
zealous for God's glory, never caring to make display or to gain the
applause of men. His whole life seemed regulated by the motto of the
Imitation, "Sublime words do not make a man just and holy, but a
virtuous life maketh him dear to God."

DEATH OF THE VERY REV. JOHN CURTIS, S. J.--A venerable patriarch has
just passed away to his reward. Father John Curtis died recently at the
Presbytery, Upper Gardiner Street, Dublin. He was in his ninety-second
year, and had been for some months failing in health. Father Curtis was
born in 1794, of respectable parents, in the city of Waterford. Having
been educated at Stonyhurst College, he entered the Society of Jesus at
the age of 20. As novice and scholastic he passed with much merit and
distinction through the various grades of probation and preparation by
which the Jesuit is trained for his arduous work, and was ordained
priest in the year 1825. Being a ripe scholar, well versed in
literature, ancient and modern, an able theologian, a fluent and
impressive speaker, he soon took a foremost place amongst the leading
priests at his time.

THE Very Rev. Canon Lyons, P.P.V.F., Spiddle, County Galway, died
recently at the venerable age of seventy-four years. He was educated for
the priesthood at St. Jarlath's College, Tuam, while yet that
institution included a thorough theological course in its curriculum of
studies. He was ordained in 1839, and speedily distinguished himself as
a pastor of zeal and eloquence, indefatigable in his labors for the
spiritual and temporal welfare of his flock. He built many churches and
parochial schools, and was among the foremost of the clergymen who drove
the infamous Souper plague from West Connaught. Canon Lyons was
charitable to an extent that always left him poor in pocket but rich in
the love of his people. He was buried within the walls of his parish
church and the funeral was attended by priests and people from many
miles around.

THE death is announced of Rev. Francis Xavier Sadlier, S. J., at Holy
Cross College, Worcester, Mass., after a brief illness. He was born in
Montreal, in 1852, and was the son of the late James Sadlier, who, with
his brother, the late Denis Sadlier, founded the well-known Catholic
publishing house of D. & J. Sadlier & Co. His mother is the well-known
Catholic authoress, Mary A. Sadlier. Father Sadlier was educated at
Manhattan College, and after a brief but brilliant career in journalism
decided to