London, Jan, 1.
'The death occurred here to-day, at the age of 73, of Francis Cardinal Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster. Cardinal Bourne, who was critically MI. over the ' weekend, become weaker Late last night and death' came suddenly at 1225 o'clock this moring. Only a nurse was present. at_his bedside when he died.
'Since the restoration of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in England' in 1850, no Catholic prelate in that country had exercised so wide an influence as Francis Cardinal Bourne, He was the first Archbishop of Westminster to dine at Buckingham Palace, and it hes been generally agreed that the notable advance made by the Catholic Church. in England since the beginning of the: century has been due largely to th3 Jendership of the cardinal.
promoting the growth of the! church it appears to have been the: plan of Cardinal Bourne to have a community grow up with the church rather than to wait until the formr, had been established. As far_ back 1893 he engaged in a controversy with "his "immediate " predecessor, Cardinal Vaughan, on the question whether there should be several diocesan seminaries or only one all dioceses, Maltiplying Small Churches When he became Archbishop. Westminster, Cardinal" Bourne put into effect his plan for steady pro-ress by multiplying small. churches so that Catholics throughout Londo might be able to attend mass within half a mile, atthe same time dividing unwieldy dioceses, "Although "always zealous for the progress of his church, it was said that none of his predecessors ex: hibited "the power of sincere patriotism which so coloured the pastorals of Cardinal Bourne. He declined to support the idea of a Catholic university or party in England, preferring that "Catholics attend national universities and amilate with the existing parties.
When he was elevated to the Collexe of Cardinals he said in address: "No power in the world more fitted for the _providentia) extension of the Catholic Church than that which has its symbol the Imperial Crown of England. At another time when the Irish trouble was at its height, addressed an Irish congregation on St. Patrick's Day, saying, amens other things: "We can proudly say tht England, even more perhaps, than" Rome, by its world-wide Influence, makes for the general good of mankind."
Cardinal Bourne was born Clapham, London, March 23, 1661 the second son of Henry and Ellen Byrne Bourne. His father, a high ost off official, was a convert to, Roman Catholieists, while his mother was an Trish Catholic, The cardinal "was educated at St, Cuthbert's College, thaw; St. Edmund's College, Ware; St. Sulpice, Paris, and finally at the University of Louvain, where he was ordained in 1884,
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