Belonging to this community are still living

Father Dominic O'Doherty who made a brilliant course of studies in Spain, is now prior of Derry; he is still in hiding at home and is a good religious.

Father Dominic Columban O'Donnell, a descendant in the direct line from the founder of the abbey, having spurned and abandoned his military career, made his profession in the college of Holy Cross, Louvain. He is at present studying in the convent of St. Jacques, at Paris, and is a young man of great promise.

Father Peter MacSweeney, professed at Louvain, is studying at Pampeluna in Spain.

Father Gelasius Dominic Mac Davett, professed at Louvain for the same convent, is now studying there.

THE FRIARS OF COLERAINE.

In the same county of Derry is a large convent built in a beautiful locality, called Coleraine Abbey' from the town of Coleraine in which it is situated. It was founded at the same time as Derry abbey. The great river Bann flows by the place and affords it abundance of fish, especially salmon. I heard from several people at home, that the first foundation of this celebrated house was made by the chieftain O'Kane, who was the powerful and ancient lord of that territory at that time and long afterwards; the family however was torn up by the roots like almost all the other old families, of which there remain only some insignificant branches. This house was adorned by a number of distinguished members. I have no knowledge of the fathers of ancient times; but I can give an account of the following fathers, as I heard it from Dr. Maguire, archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland.

Father Thomas Mac Mahon, of Coleraine Abbey, studied at Pampeluna, and after his studies, went to

venit in Galliam et moratus est Baionæ, ubi septennio erat magister novitiorum cum singulari pietate, laude et fructu. Redux in patriam exercuit idem officium multo tempore cum pari sorte. Observantissimus fuit constitutionum nostrarum, et cum magna sanctitatis opinione, die 17 Martii, consecrata apostolo S. Patricio, confessione facta ac Missa devote lecta, oppressus denso et violento catarrho, diem clausit extremum, anno 1681. Per quindecim annos fuit prior Gaulensis summum præbens exemplum. Vir erat doctus, sed minus habilis ad prædicandum ob pectoris infirmitatem. Insuper erat magnus catechista, indefessus confessarius et prudens; unde mirabile est, quod novitii et professi affirmant, qui diu sub ipso vixerunt, nempe quod singulis diebus præter Officium Canonicum, recitabat Officium Beatæ Virginis Mariæ ac ac Defunctorum, integraliter cum Rosario. Quis est similis illi in hac devotione? Recepit plures juvenes sanguine et moribus conspicuos: de quibus sermo fiet, dum mentio fiet conventus Gaulensis.

R. P. Fr. Patricius O'Dirah (sic), ex eodem conventu, studuit cum magno fructu in Hispania, et redux ad suos apparuit in brevi facundissimus concionator. Erat regularis observantiæ custos vigilantissimus, et obiit cum bona fama in Ordine et populo.

Rev. adm. P. Fr. Clemens O'Berne, nobiliter natus et multo nobilior sanctis moribus, studuit optime in Hispania. Prædicator erat egregius et conversationis valde exemplaris in tota vita. Sæpe fuit prior, moderans cum insigni prudentia.

Rev. adm. P. Fr. Eugenius O'Coigly studuit in Hispania, et redux in patriam ita se exercuit in assidua prædicatione, docta, profunda et facunda, ut Illustrissimus Dominus Primas prædictus scribit mihi quod nunquam

France and stayed at Bayonne, where with singular piety and great success, he was master of novices for seven years. Returning home, he did the same duty for a long time with the same results. He was most observant of our holy rule, and at length on the seventeenth of March, the feast of St. Patrick, 1681, having made his confession and said Mass devoutly, worn out with a violent cough, he closed his last day, in the odour of sanctity. For fifteen years he was prior of Gola, giving the brightest example. He was a learned man, but not effective as a preacher owing to a weak chest. He was also a great catechist, a prudent and indefatigable confessor, and hence it is a marvel what the novices and professed brothers who lived long under him affirm, viz., that every day, in addition to the Divine Office, he recited the Office of the Blessed Virgin and that of the Dead, together with the Rosary. Who is like unto him in this devotion ? He received many young men of distinguished family and good promise: of whom we shall treat in the section relating to Gola Abbey.

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Father Patrick O'Deary, of the same community, studied with great success in Spain, and returning home, became in a short time a most eloquent preacher. He was a great observer of the rule, and died in the odour of sanctity and in the esteem of the Order and of the laity. Father Clement O'Berne, of noble birth but nobler still by the sanctity of his life, studied with success in Spain. He was a fine preacher and of exemplary conduct during his whole life. He was often prior, governing with remarkable prudence.

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Father Owen O'Quigley' studied with remarkable success in Spain, and returning home, preached with such profound learning and eloquence that the Lord Primate, already alluded to, writes to me that in all

audiverit æquandum illi prædicatorem in Hibernia. Sæpe fuit prior, et suscepit multam juventutem egregiam ad habitum et professionem. Observator exactus erat constitutionum, quoad fieri poterat in illa afflicta patria.

Rev. P. Fr. Jacobus O'Croly studuit pariter in Hispania cum laude. Evasit in patria optimus prædicator, observator regularis vitæ, et missionarius zelosissimus usque ad mortem. Hæc de istis operariis evangelicis scribo ex epistola Illustrissimi Domini Primatis mihi data Parisiis, 26 Feb. currentis anni 1706.

Rev. adm. P. Fr. Patricius O'Hegarty, ex eodem conventu, studuit in S. Honorato, Parisiis, et in illa religiosissima domo profecit in religione et scientia. Redux in patriam prædicavit anglice Pontanæ in ecclesia parochiali cum laude, multo tempore, et exercitio assiduo evasit satis completus prædicator in utraque lingua, Hibernica et Anglica. Fuit prior Dubliniensis, et expugnato regno ab Usurpatore Arausicano ivit cum legione Hibernica in Galliam, et cum hæc legio reformata esset incipiente ultima pace, ille cum licentia superiorum inservivit ut vicarius in parochia de Trélou in diocesi Suessionensi, ubi prædicabat gallice cum applausu. Deinde profectus ad urbem Sancti Maclovii ob aliquod negotium, longo itinere fatigatus, correptus est febri valida, et post octo dies susceptis sacramentis transivit ex hac vita, anno 1704.

Illustrissimus et Reverendissimus D. Fr. Dominicus Maguire, hibernice autem Mac Uidhir, ex eodem conventu, antiqua familia spectabilis, professus in manibus venerandi viri P. Eugenii O'Coigly prædicti, ivit in Hispaniam, et studuit fructuose in Bætica. Deinde rediit in Angliam et factus est sacellanus honoris penes

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Ireland he never heard a preacher equal to him. He was many times prior, received several good young men to the habit and profession, and was as exact an observer of the rule as he could be in that afflicted land.

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Father James O'Croly likewise studied successfully in Spain. At home he became a fine preacher, was a great observer of the rule, and was a most zealous missionary till his death. My information about these evangelical labourers, I give from a letter of the Lord Primate, given to me at Paris, on the twenty-sixth of February of this year, 1706.

Father Patrick O'Hegarty, of the same community, studied at St. Honoré, at Paris, and in that most religious house made progress in piety and learning. Returning home he preached in English in the parish church at Drogheda for a long time, and by constant practice became a very perfect preacher in both Irish and English. He became prior at Dublin, but after the conquest of the kingdom by the Orange Usurper, went with the Irish Brigade to France; and when this regiment was paid off at the beginning of the late peace, he, with the leave of his superiors, served as a curate in the parish of Trélou, of the diocese of Soissons, where he preached in French with applause. Afterwards on going to the town of St. Malo on some business, fatigued with the long journey, he was stricken with fever, and after eight days, having re⚫ceived the last sacraments, passed from this life in the year 1704.

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Dr. Dominic Maguire, in Irish, Mac Uidir, of the same community, of an old respectable family, professed at the hands of the venerable Father Owen O'Quigley, already referred to, went to Spain and studied successfully in Andalusia. Then he repaired to England and was appointed honorary chaplain of the Spanish Ambas