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WATEBFOBB 769 WELLLINaTON

Tacoma. Washington furnished during the war valuable light especially on the woik of David, Mem-

45,154 soldiers (1.20 per cent of the United States line, the Van Eycks and otiber artuBts of the early

Army). The Washington members of the newly Flemish school. He had an expert knowledge

draft^ Nationa' Army were incorporated into the also of early book-binding, illuminated manuscripts

Olst Division at Camp Lewis. Especially active and monumental brasses. In 1872 he was invited

was the government cut-up plant at Vancouver, back to Engjand to classify and describe the speci-

Washington, in the spruce production for war air- mens of Flemish art in the South Kensington Museum,

planes. The summar^ of casualties of Washin^n and in 1890 was appointed keeper of the National Art

members of the American Expeditionary Force is as Libru^. He was an honorary member of the Royal

follows: deceased, 42 officers, 835 men; prisoners, Flemish Academy, and of the Academy of Fine Arts

2 officers, 20 men; wounded, 94 officers, 1077 men. of Antwerp, and an Associate of the Royal Academy After the war considerable labor disturbances marked of Belgium; in addition he was decorated as an the State's industrial life. Radical agitators at- officer of the Order of Leopold. Among his writings tempted to favor the flame of discontent caused by in addition to memoirs on the artists mentioned high prices and inflated currency and the climax above: may be mentioned "Bruges. et ses environs" came at Centralia on 11 November, 1919, when a (1862); "Memoiresur la Restaurationde Monuments crowd of I. W. W. fired several shots into a parade Publics en Belgpque" (1862): "Le Beffroi: arts, heraldi- of members of the American Legion. One of the que, archtologie (1863-76); La Flandre: revue des leading agitators was lynched. monuments d'histoire et d'antiquite" (1867-76);

«r.-^^ ^,* TN /«r "BibHographia Liturgica" (1886); and "Pfeintres

Waterford and Llsmore, Diocese of (Water- Brugeow" (1907-12). He also contributed an article

poRDENBis BT Lismomsnsib; cf . C. E., XV-— 564d), on David Gheeraert to the Catholic Encyclopedia. suffragan of Cashel, Ireland. Bishop Sheehan died

in 1916 after a strenuous career as bishop. He re- Weber, Anbelm, apojstle of the Navajo Indians,

established the ancient diocesan chapter and renewed h. at New Salem, Michigan, on 10 November, 1862;

the diocesan S3mod which had not been held for nearly d. at Rochester, Minnesota, on 7 March, 1921.

two centuries. Amongst his other notable works were He was educated at St. Francis College, Cincinnati,

the introduction of a system of reliffious school exam- and entered the Friars Minor in 1^2. After his

inations, the compilation of a catecnism for diocesan ordination seven years later, he taught at Cincinnati,

use, the provision of clergy houses and the promotion and in 1898 was sent as a missionary to the Navajos

and improvement of ecclesiastical music and cere- in Arizona. Two years later he became superior of

monial. He was succeeded by Rt. Rev. Bernard the mission, and established a school at St. Michael's,

Hackett, C.SS.R., b. at Dun^^avan, 1863, ordained which proved very successful and has had great

1888, superior of the Redemptonst convent in Limerick influence among the Indians. He was instrumental

when he was elected 29 January, 1916, consecrated in having the reservations of the Navajos extended

19 March, 1917. and obtained much helpful legislation for them;

Rev. Dr. Henebery died in 1917. He had been pro- In the course of his missionaiy labors among the

fessor of Old and Modern Irish in the National Uni- Indians in Arizona and New MexiGO, Father Weber

versity of Ireland and had much reputation as a became expert in their language, and assisted his

scholar. He left no permanent work except a still brother Franciscans in compili^ their "Ethnologic

unpublished treatise of a highly technical character Dictionary of the. Navajo Lan^iage" (1910). He

on Irish music. The year 1917 also witnessed the wrote a Navajo-English "Catechism of Christian

deathof Rev. M. P. O'Hickey, late professor of Irish Doctrine," and was enga^d in writing a Navajo

at Maynooth , whose energy and enthusiasm did much grammar when his health finally broke down . He was

to foster a taste for their native lan^uaee amongst the a contributor to the "Indian Sentinel" and "Sendbote

clergjr of Ireland, to his exertions being largely due the des Goettlichen fierzens Jesu," and wrote the article

Provision of essential Irish in the curriculum of the "Navajo Indians" for the Catholic Encyclopedia. rational University of Ireland. The Diocese con- tains 39 parishes, 77 churches, 10 monasteries, 1 Wellington, Abchdiocbsb of (Wellingtonienbis; abbey, and 6 convents for men, 29 convents for cf. C. E., XV — 580a), in New Zealand. This see women, 120 secular priests, 46 regulars. 602 Sisters, has been nlled for thirty-eieht years by Most Rev.

3 seminaries,. 2 coUe^jjes for men and 1 for women, 6 Francis-Marie Redwood, who was appointed bishop hi^h schools, 2 training schools, 3 industrial schools in 1874, and promoted upon the erection of the see with an attendance of 381; the students in St. John's into a metropolitan see m 1887. In 1913 he was College and Mount Melleray seminary are oreanized given a coadjutor, with right of succession, in the for the relief of foreign missions. There are 10 homes, person of Moist Rev. Thomas O'Shea of the Con^^re- 3 a^lumsforthe insane, 7 hospitals, 1 refuge. Various ^tion of Marists. He was bom in San Francisco reli^ous societies and an ecclesiastical benevolent m 1870, studied at St. Mary's Seminary, Meanee, society are organized amons the clergy and among the New Zealand, and was ordained in 1893, returning to lait^ there are various religious and young men's the seminary as a professor. He later served as societies. rector of St. Joseph's, Wellington, was made vicar

general in 1907, and was appointed titular Bishop of

Weale, Wiluam Henrt James, antiquarian, b. Gortvna, 9 May, 1913. In 1915 Archbishop Red-

at Marylebone, London, on 8 March, 1832; d. at wood celebrated the eolden iubilee of his priesthood,

Clapham Common, London, on 26 April, 1917: and in 1918 Rev. Dean Binsfeld celebrated the

son of J. and Susan ( Vesien) Weale. He was educated diamond jubilee or sixtieth anniversary of his ordina-

at King's (Ik)llege, London, and from his youth had a tion. A beautiful Gothic church dedicated to St.

fascination for art and archsology, being especially Mary of the Angels was erected in Wellington City

interested in the antiquities of Belgium. In 1849 he in 1920-21. During the World War this diocese gave

became a Catholic, and after maiying Miss Helena about 500 of its young men to serve with the forces,

Walton settled at Bruges in 1855. Four years later and larse numbers fell in action or died from wounds:

he published ^'Belgium, Aix-la-Chapelle and Cologne, GeneralF. E. Johnston was killed in France in 1917,

an Archaeological Guide-Book/' the fruit of his and Colonel W. J. Malone was killed in Gallipoli in

travels and studies. He contmued his studies in 1915. From the ranks of the clei:^ 14 went to the

medieval Flemish art and was soon acknowledged the front as chaplains, and one, Father AlcMenamin, was

leading living authority on the subject; he threw killed in action, and another. Father Patrick Dore, 50