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CULLEN, PAUL (1803–1878)

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CULLEN, See also:PAUL (1803–1878) , See also:cardinal and See also:archbishop of See also:Dublin, was See also:born near Ballytore, Co. See also:Kildare, and educated first at the Quaker school at See also:Carlow and afterwards at See also:Rome, where he joined the. See also:Urban See also:College of the Propaganda and, after passing a brilliant course, was ordained in 1829. He then became See also:vice-See also:rector, and afterwards rector, of the Irish See also:National College in Rome; and during the Mazzini revolution of 1848 he was rector of the Urban College, saving the See also:property under the See also:protection of the See also:American See also:flag. In 1849, on the strong recommendation of Archbishop See also:John See also:MacHale of See also:Tuam, Cullen was nominated as successor to the primatial see of See also:Armagh; and, on his return to See also:Ireland, presided as papal delegate at the national See also:council of See also:Thurles in the See also:August of 185o. Taking a strong See also:line on the educational question which was then agitating Ireland, he took a leading See also:part in the national See also:movement of 1850-1852, and at first supported the See also:Tenant Rights See also:League. In May 1852 he was translated to Dublin, and soon a divergence of See also:opinion See also:broke out between him and the more ardent Nationalists under Archbishop MacHale. When the Irish university was started, with See also:Newman, appointed by Cullen, at its See also:head, the See also:scheme was wrecked by the See also:personal opposition to the archbishop of Dublin. As See also:time went on, his distrust of the national movement See also:grew deeper; and in 1853 he sternly forbade his See also:clergy to take part publicly in politics, and for this he was denounced by the Tablet newspaper. His own See also:political opinion had best be told in his own words. " Fqr See also:thirty years I have studied the revolution on the See also:continent, and for nearly thirty years I have watched the Nationalist movement in Ireland. It is tainted at its See also:sources with the revolutionary spirit.

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attempt is made to abridge the rights and liberties of the See also:Catholic See also:Church in Ireland, it will not be by the See also:English See also:government nor by a ` No Popery ' cry in See also:England, but by the revolutionary and irreligious Nationalists of Ireland " (See also:Purcell's See also:Life of See also:Manning, ii. 61o). Cullen, therefore, while an ardent patriot, was consistently an opponent of Fenianism. He was made cardinal in 1866, being the first Irish cardinal. Energetic as an See also:administrator, churches and See also:schools See also:rose throughout his See also:diocese; and the excellent Mater Misericordiae See also:Hospital and the See also:seminary at Clonlife are lasting memorials of his zeal. He took part in the Vatican Council as an ardent infallibilist. In 1873 he was See also:defendant in a See also:libel See also:action brought against him by the Rev. R. O'Keeffe, See also:parish See also:priest of Callan, on See also:account of two sentences of ecclesiastical censure pronounced by the cardinal as papal delegate. The See also:damages were laid at £ro,000. Three of the four See also:judges allowed the See also:defence of the cardinal to be valid; but it was held that the papal rescript upon which he relied for his extraordinary See also:powers as delegate was illegal under See also:statute; and the See also:lord See also:chief See also:justice decided that the See also:plaintiff could not renounce his natural and See also:civil See also:liberty. After several days' trial, during which Cullen was submitted to a very See also:close examination, the See also:verdict was given for the plaintiff with ;d. damages.

The cardinal died in Dublin on the 24th of See also:

October 1878. (E.

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