It is only a few days since we published a letter from Monseigneur Raguit, Bishop of Manchuria, addressed to M. Wagner, Consul-General for France, thanking him and the contributors for the money sent to the Bishop for the relief of the famine-stricken in his diocese; and now we have to announce the painful fact that a telegram has been received advising in few words the death of the Bishop on the 17th May. Only the day before a letter was received from the Bishop, dated the 23rd of April, containing some farther details of the famine, and stating that it was his intention to leave Payensousou on the 10th ant, and that he would be in Newchwang at the end of June, His death, which was entirely unexpected, will be a blow to the Mission and to the ivcese, which has already lost within the last two years Monseigneur Dubuil, Vicar Apostolic, who died at Newchwang, and Monseigneur Boyer, Coadjutor, who also died at Payensousow.
Monseigneur Raguit was born at Poitiers in 1848, and came to China in 1872, and' from that date has been always in the Mission of Manchuria, either in Newchwang or in Payensousou, He was in that town in March 1888, when he was elected Bishop of Trajanopolis and Vicar Apostolic of Manchuria. He was consecrated at Peking on the 9th September. Sven after his return to Manchuria he began the visitation of his large Mission, where there was and is yet so much misery on account of the famine, Monseigneur Raguit died in Payensousou, where he had done such Evreign friends in Newchwang, by whom, ood work a8 a missionary. He had many as by the Chinese attached to the Missi he will be much lamented.
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