O'DONNELL AN[) TIHE SEE OF RAPHOE St. Francis. The reply which I gave Having r·ecommended to Your Em... to these gentlemen was that tht.y· had inence a matter which will be all the on.ly to make their complaints known more dear to your heart because it to the Sacred Congregation, and then concerns the glory of God and the senct. a postu.iation for this Father. salvation of souls, there remains for As a result of all this I received mEJ only to offer you the deep respect some time ago letters from these and great esteem with which I have gentlemen informing me that they the honour to be the very humble and have followed my advice, and renew obedient servant of Your Eminence, their entreaties. I have learned, how- Count 0 Donel, ever, that this petition has not arl"ived Lieutenant-General in the in Rome. But in order to -convince service of their Imperial Majesties.-"' Your Eminence that its non...arrival Frnm Vienna, 9 July, 1777 has been due to some accident which This document poses ·some inter... one cannot explain, I am sending to esting questions. First, who exactly the Revd. Father who will have the was thi·s Count 0 Donel? Obviously he honour to give you this, the two latest was a descendant of one of the exi!- letters which I have received. on the ed O Donnells--of those who, as the subject, (and) which he will com- writer says, 'did so much good for remunicate to you. Ligion in those regions' (lr1eland). Yolll· Eminence will be surprised And he states that the cause of reiigthat I should have been approached ion in Ireland will always find in him, on a matter which .·seems so little in a warm support~r. Unfortunately he my line. It is because these gentlemen did not sign his baptismal name. But imagine that a certain right of petit- Mr. Rupert O Cochlainn kindly inion be.longs to the descendants of forms me that he has no hesitation in those ancesto:::-s (of mine) who did so identifying him with Major-General much good for religion in those re- Henry, Count 0 Donel, found·er of the gic-ns, and that they 1like to believe present Austrian line.IO M:r;:. 0 Cochthat I shall always ·interest myself in lainn's biographical note on Count anything that may advance. the glory Henry runs: 'Henry of Aughty, Murof Gnd, and -contri:bute to the welfare risk, Co. Mayo, founder of the present of persecuted religion in that country. Branch of the Q'Donnells in Austda. It is above all this last reason He was born in 1729 (the date a1ways that induces me to recommend the given on the Continent is 1726). He Revd. Father Patrick Thally as a truly entered the Austrian Service at the apostolic man. I do not doubt but age of 16, and was reputed to have that he will fulfil the desire which been the handsomest man in the a.::my._ Your EminE.nce has always shown of In 1754 he married Leopoldine, Prinsending worthy, tireless workers 'to cess Cantacuzene, at the express wish this mission. of the Emp.::ess ~1aria Theresa, who gave the bride a dowry of three POTEEN DEATH estates in Galicia, and led her to the Stranorlar, Dec. 23, 1842. altar on her wedding day. Henry was Whi1E.1 the Revenue Police, station-very influential at Court. He was a ed at .Stranorlar, we:::-e search.ing for great favourite. with the Empress, poteen in tht.1 Barnes mountain they who, when disposing of her jewellery discovered a still house at work, its after her husband's death, presented fire going E.itc. In it lay two men in- Count Henry with some · fine pieces sensilble from drinking and a third for hi3 wife. In 1754 he had attained man dead. 1 the rank of Captain. He fought in ·the ·. 474.
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