{"id":2353,"date":"2015-05-22T07:57:39","date_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkpdefunts.smainternational.info\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2015-05-22T07:57:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T07:57:39","slug":"le-pere-patrick-cahill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.defunts.smainternational.site\/?p=2353","title":{"rendered":"Le P\u00e8re Patrick CAHILL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Missions Africaines \u2013 Province d’Irlande<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"CAHILL<\/td>\nn\u00e9 le 7 mars 1902 \u00e0 Dublin
dans le dans le dioc\u00e8se de Dublin
membre de la SMA le 31 octobre 1924
pr\u00eatre le 10 juin 1928
d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 le 12 juillet 1945<\/td>\n		\n

1928-1937 missionnaire dans le vicariat de Lagos
1938-1940 aum\u00f4nier militaire
1940-1945 malade, soins m\u00e9dicaux, tumeur au cerveau<\/p>\n

d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 \u00e0 Dublin, Irlande, le 12 juillet 1945,
\u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 43 ans<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Le p\u00e8re Patrick CAHILL (1902 – 1945)<\/p>\n

A Dublin (Irlande), le 12 juillet 1945, retour \u00e0 Dieu du p\u00e8re Patrick Cahill, \u00e0 l’\u00e2ge de 43 ans.<\/p>\n

Patrick Cahill naquit \u00e0 Dublin en 1902. Il commen\u00e7a ses \u00e9tudes chez les p\u00e8res Passionistes, puis les continua \u00e0 Ballinafad, Wilton et Kilcogan. Il dut alors arr\u00eater temporairement ses \u00e9tudes et c’est \u00e0 Chanly que Patrick Cahill fit son noviciat proprement dit, lequel se termina par le serment en 1924. Il reprit ses \u00e9tudes en Irlande et fut ordonn\u00e9 pr\u00eatre en 1928. Le p\u00e8re Cahill partait la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e pour le vicariat de la C\u00f4te du B\u00e9nin o\u00f9 il allait travailler 12 ans.<\/p>\n

Il se d\u00e9voua en particulier pr\u00e8s de Mgr O’Rourke et du p\u00e8re Simon lors de la construction de la cath\u00e9drale de Lagos. Rentr\u00e9 gravement malade en 1940, le p\u00e8re Cahill rendra service comme aum\u00f4nier militaire, aussi longtemps que ses forces le lui permettront. Il meurt d’une tumeur au cerveau apr\u00e8s de longues et p\u00e9nibles souffrances.<\/p>\n

Le trait caract\u00e9ristique du p\u00e8re Cahill fut sa g\u00e9n\u00e9rosit\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Father Patrick Joseph CAHILL (1902 – 1945)<\/p>\n

Patrick Cahill was born in Co Dublin (his home address was ‘Rathlands House, Kimmage’), on 7 March 1902.
He died in the Hospice for the Dying, Our Lady’s Mount, Harold’s Cross, Dublin, on 12 July 1945.<\/p>\n

Patrick (Paddy) studied with the Christian Brothers at Synge Street, Dublin, and continued his secondary education at the catholic university school in Stephen’s Green. In 1918 he began his studies for the priesthood with the Passionists, in their apostolic school, at Sandymount, Dublin. He remained there seven months before transferring to the S.M.A. He studied at the Sacred Heart college, Ballinafad, Co Mayo (1918 1919), and at St. Joseph’s college, Wilton, Cork (1919 1921), before joining the novitiate and house of philosophy, at Kilcolgan, Co Galway, in the autumn of 1921. Having completed the first of two years at Kilcolgan ill health forced him to leave the Society temporarily and when he resumed Patrick was sent to the seminary at Chanly, Belgium, where in addition to studying philosophy and teaching English to his comrades, he benefited from a better climate. Patrick commenced his theological studies in the major seminary at Cours Gambetta, Lyon, France, in 1924. After a year he came to St. Joseph’s seminary, at Blackrock Road, Cork, to continue his course. In 1926 the major seminary was transferred to Dromantine, Co Down, and it was here that Patrick completed his seminary formation. Patrick became a member of the Society on 31 October 1924, taking his oath at Lyon. He was ordained a priest by Bishop Edward Mulhern of Dromore diocese, in St. Colman’s cathedral, Newry, on 10 June 1928. He was one of a group of nine ordained on that day.<\/p>\n

After ordination Patrick was appointed to the vicariate of the Bight of Benin in south-western Nigeria, sailing for his mission in November 1928. On his arrival Bishop Ferdinand Terrien, the vicar apostolic, appointed him to St. Theresa’s inter-vicarial minor seminary, in Ibadan, an institution which provided education for seminarians from several jurisdictions in the south and west of Nigeria. Eugene Schaeffer, an Alsatian confrere, was superior of this secondary school, which had some 30 pupils in residence. After a year Patrick was re-assigned to Holy Cross cathedral ‘parish’, the oldest mission in Nigeria, established in 1868. Jean Grando, a French confrere, was superior of Holy Cross, and the other priests on the staff were J.C. O’Flaherty and Lawrence Layode, a Nigerian, who had been ordained in 1929. Holy Cross was perhaps the busiest station in Nigeria, with a catholic community of over 10,000 members and 700 catechumens. In 1929 there had been 30 catholic marriages celebrated in the cathedral, more than in any other station of the Society’s Nigerian missions. Patrick went to Ireland on his first home leave in April 1932.<\/p>\n

Bishop Terrien died in 1929 and was succeeded a year later by Francis O’Rourke. At the same time the vicariate was entrusted to the care of the Irish Province. On his return to Nigeria in January 1933 Patrick Cahill was appointed secretary to Bishop O’Rourke. One of the bishop’s greatest ambitions was to provide the jurisdiction with a larger cathedral. He demolished the old cathedral built in 1878 by Jean Baptiste Chausse (first bishop at Lagos) and on 6 August 1934 laid the foundation stone of the present cathedral. Patrick was to play an important role in the building of the new, working closely with the bishop and with Aim\u00e9 Simon, an Alsatian member of the Society, who designed the cathedral and supervised its construction. Fr. Simon visited the great cathedrals of Europe before designing Holy Cross. Patrick was involved in organising the Catholics of the vicariate to fund the project and in procuring building materials. During this period, too, Patrick served on the council of the ‘visitor’, who was entrusted by the Province with the welfare of its members in the vicariate. Patrick impressed his colleagues, not only as pastor and bishop’s secretary, but also as advisor to the ‘visitor’. In 1937 it was no surprise when he was selected by his confreres as their delegate to the Provincial Assembly of that year.<\/p>\n

In 1938 Bishop O’Rourke died and was succeeded in June 1939 by Leo Hale Taylor. On his return from the Assembly in 1938 Patrick was re-assigned to Lafiaji mission, the ‘second principal station’ of Lagos district, founded in 1915 under the patronage of St. Michael. He worked there until the outbreak of the second world war. He then volunteered as army chaplain to African soldiers fighting in the Allied cause. Promoted to the rank of Major, he was for two years senior chaplain in Nigeria, and his name will especially be remembered in connection with the founding of the Services Inn at Elegbata, Lagos. During wartime the Services Inn catered for soldiers, sailors and airmen, passing through Lagos en route to North Africa. In the post-war period it served as a ‘transit centre’ for missionaries passing through Lagos. It also formed the ‘nucleus’ of a parish. In June 1943 Patrick suffered a brain tumour and was invalided home to Ireland. After a period of convalescence he resumed his chaplaincy ministry, although he was unable to return to the tropics. He served as chaplain to the British army in Northern Ireland until January 1945 when his condition worsened and he was forced to retire. He died after a long illness, borne bravely.<\/p>\n

He is buried in Wilton cemetery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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