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of the most perfect moderation in his lofty dignity;
a man who is an enemy to contestation and trouble,
an angel of peace and conciliation; a man who is a
stranger to self-interest and generous toward the
Church and the poor; a man full of the knowledge of
Holy Writ, of the unction of the Divine Word in all
his pastoral teaching; a man solely intent on sanc-
tifying his people, on rearing a clergy of model priests
by giving thetn in his own person the example of the
most edifying zeal and of a shining piety".
(2) Paul S. La Rocque, b. at Sainte Marie de Mon- noir, 28 Oct., 1846; ordained priest, 9 May, 1869; elected Bishop of Sherbrooke, 6 Oct., 1893; conse- crated on the 30 Nov. of the same year. Bishop La Rocque has continued the good work undertaken by his predecessor, and Sherbrooke is progressing wonderfully.
Statistics. — When the diocese was erected, in 1874, there were but 28 secular priests and 26 parishes with resident priests; to-day there are 122 secular priests, 74 parishes, and 8 missions. The Catholic population in 1874 numbered 29,000; now it is 8.5,000. In 1874 there were only 130 schools with an attend- ance of 4000 pupils; now there are 369 schools, 1 college, 1 seminary, 12 academies, and 9 boarding- schools, with an attendance of 16,000 pupils. The Brothers of the Sacred Heart have 10 schools in the diocese. In all the principal towns there are convents wherein young girls get an excellent training. The different orders of nuns who have hou.ses in the diocese are : Congregation de Notre Dame, Soeurs de la Presentation, Soeurs de rAs.somy)tion, Soeurs des SS. Noms de Jesus-Marie, Filles de la Charite du S. C. de J6sus, Soeurs de la Charite, Sceurs du Precieux Sang, Soeurs de la Sainte Fainille, whose mother-house is in Sherbrooke. The Missionaires de la Salette have charge of the Sacred Heart Parish, Stanstead. The Redemptorist Fathers have also taken charge of a parish, and in the future their novitiate will be in Sherbrooke instead of Montreal. The Irish Brothers of the Presentation are oi)ening a school in the city of Sherbrooke for the English- speaking children. The diocese has also an Old Folks' Home, an Orphans' Home, and a hospital second to none in the Dominion of Canada. J. C. McGee.
Sheridan, Philip Henry, b. at Albany, N. Y., U. S. A., 6 March, 1831; d. at Nonquitt, Mass., 5 August, 1888. His family were among the Catholic pioneers who moved to Somer- set, Ohio, during his boyhood; he entered the U. S. Military Acad- emy in 1848 from that state and graduated in 18 5 3, receiving the rank of brevet second- lieutenant of in- fantry. In the following year he was sent to Texas and there, and in Oregon, served with much credit, settling difficul- ties with the In- dians. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was made chief Quar- termaster under General Halleck, and in May, 1862, was commissioned colonel of the Second Michigan Volunteer Cavalry. Rapid promotion followed,
that of brigadier-general in July, and the command
of a division of the Army of the Ohio in Septem-
ber; in the operations in the South-west, during
the two following years, he greatly distinguished
himself. Appointed commander of all the cavalry
of the Army of the Potomac in April, 1864, he
was thereafter one of General Grant's chief i-e-
liances in his operations in Virginia against Lee.
During a brief absence of Sheridan in Washing-
ton, General Early attacked the Union Army near
Cedar Creek, 19 October, 1864, and was at first vic-
torious. Sheridan arrived during the retreat, rode
at full speed from Winchester, arrived in the field,
and rallying his men, converted the disaster into a
complete victory. General Grant writing of this
feat said: "Turning what bid fair to be a disaster
into a glorious victory, stamps Sheridan what I have
always thought him, one of the ablest of generals".
In November, 1864, his commission of major-general
in the regular army was awarded him. His raids
during the early part of 186r), to destroy the railroads
and the other remaining avenues of supply to Lee's
army, contributed much to the final surrender of the
Confederate Army at Appomattox in April. After
the war Sheridan was appointed to command the
military department in Louisiana, Texas, and Mis-
souri, and during 1870-1, at the period of the Franco-
Prussian trouble, visited Europe where he was re-
ceived with distinguished consideration at the head-
quarters of the German Army, and was present at
several important battles of the campaign. He was
promoted to the rank of lieutenant-general in 1869,
succeeding General Sherman as commander-in-chief
of the army in 1883, and shortly before his death, on
1 June, 1888, was confirmed as general of the army.
Personal Memoirs of P. H. Sheridan, General U. S. Army (New York, 1888); Culltjm, Biog. Register of the Graduates, U. S. M. A., West Point (New York, 1868); Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia for 1883 (New York, 1889).
Thomas F. Meehan.
Sherson, Martin, English priest and confessor, one of the Dilati (see English Martyrs), b. 1563; d. 1588. A native of Yorkshire, he matriculated at Oxford from St. John's College in 1575 at the age of twelve, becoming "a poor scholar of George Manner- ing who taught Rhetoric there"; arrived at the Eng- lish College at Reims, 1 April, 1580; was confirmed by Bishop Goldwell, 11 June, 1580; left for Rome, 20 March; and entered the English College, 8 May, 1581, aged eighteen, where "through an over-zealous appli- cation to study and prayer he began to spit blood " . He returned to Reims, 22 June, 1585; and was ordained sub-deacon in the chapel of the Holy Cross in Reims Cathedral, 21 Sept. by Mgr Louis de Breze, Bishop of Meaux, deacon at Laon, 14 March, and priest at Laon, 5 April, 1586. He left for England, 16 June, and was imprisoned in the Marshalsea before 22 December, 1586. He was still there in March, 1587-8, and died there soon after, aged twenty-five. Fr. Morris is in error in saying he died in February, 1587-8, aged twenty-eight. "He was a young man of good abilities and well trained in piety and obe- dience. He was of moderate height, had a slight beard, a pale, oval face, and a rather large head."
Pollen, Acts of the English Martyrs (London, 1891), 271; Morris, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers (3rd series, London, 1877), 36; Knox, Doxmy Diaries (London, 1878); Foley, Records Eng. Prov. S.J., VI (London, 1875-83), 125, 147; Catholic Record Society publications, II, V (London, 1905 — )• Foster, Alumni Oxonienses.
John B. Wainewright
Sherwood, William, Bishop of Meath, d. at Dublin, 3 Dec, 1482. He was an English ecclesiastic who obtained the see by papal provision in April, 1460. Of his earlier life nothing is known. He soon came into conflict with Thomas Fitzgerald, eighth Earl of Desmond, who was deputy to George, Duke of Clarence. Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland. The ear,'
