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From here he was appointed to take charge of a lodg- ing power was condemned by the theological faculty

ing-house for boys which the St. Vincent de Paul of Louvain; but it is noteworthy that its author was

Society had opened some time previously. The caring selected by the pope himself as the verj- man in whose

for homeless and destitute children appealed to him person he would revive the episcopal authority in

specially, and he volunteered to take up the direction England ; Dr. William Bishop being nominated Bishop

of this work which had languished until then. Under his sympathetic and prudent management success was at once assured. He started St. Joseph's Union for the support of the institution and soon e.xtended its membership all over the world. The first location of the lodging-house became inadequate to the needs

of C'halcedon and first vicar Apostolic in that coun- try in 162.3.

The results of the address were disappointing; EUzabeth died within three months of its signature, and James I soon proved that he would not be satisfied with any purely civil allegiance. He thirsted

and he purchased land at Great Jones Street and for spiritual authority, and, with the assistance of Lafayette Place and built an imposing structure an apostate Jesuit, a new oath of allegiance was which was opened as the Mission of the Immaculate drawn up, which in its subtlety was designed to

Virgin in December,. 1881. In the following year a farm was bought on Staten Island, and Mount Lo- retto, the country-place of the Mission, where trade schools and other buildings were built, their care being given to a community of Franciscan Sisters. These buildings cost more than a million dollars and were large enough to care for 2000 destitute children annually; at his death, which occurred after a very short illness. Father Drumgoole left them entirely free of debt. He accomplished all this without any great personal talents apart fri>m a simplicity and earnestness of charity that won him friends every- where. He had singular success in managing boys, and, like his great prototype, Don Bosco, he belie%ed and said that it was all due to his rule: " in looking after the interests of the child it is necessary to cul- tivate the heart."

The Charili':s Review (Vew York. Sept . 189S); The Freeman's Journal. TheCalhviic Review (New York), contemporary file- MaLLICK J. FiTZPATRlCK.

Drury, Robert, Venerablk. MartjT (1567-1607), was bom of a good Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English Col- lege at Reims, 1 April, 1588. On 17 September, 1590, he was sent to the new College at Valladolid ; here he finished his studies, was ordained priest and returned to England in 1593. He laboured chiefly in London, where his learning and virtue made him much respected among his brethren. He was one of the appellants against the archpriest Blackwell, and his name is afiaxe(i to the appeal of 17 November, 1600, dated from the prison at Wisbech. An invitation from the Government to these priests to acknowledge their allegiance and duty to the queen (dated 5 November, 1602) led to the famous loyal ad- (iress of 31 Januarj', 1603, drawn up by Dr. William Bishop, and signed by thirteen of the leading priests, including the two martyrs, Drury and Cadwallador,

trouble the conscience of Catholics and divide them on the lawfulness of taking it. It was imposed 5 July, 1606, and about this time Drury was arrested. He was condemned for his priesthood, but was offered his life if he would take the new oath. A letter from Father Persons, S.J., against its lawfulness was found on him. The oath declared that the "damnable doc- trine" of the deposing power was "impious and hereti- cal", and it was condemned by Pope Paul V, 22 September, 1606, "as con- taining many things contrary to the Faith and Salvation". This brief, however, was suppressed by the arch- priest, and Drury probably did not know of it. But he felt that his con- science would not permit him to take the oath, and he died a martjT at Tyburn, 26 February, 1606-7. A curious contemporary account of his martyrdom, entitled "A true Report of the Arraignment ... of a Popish Priest named Robert Drewrie" (Lon- don, 1607), which has been reprinted in the "Harleian Miscellany", calls him a Benedictine, and says he wore his monastic habit at the execution. But this "habit" as described proves to be the cassock and cap worn by the secular clergy. The writer adds, "There were certain papers shown at Tyburn which had been found about him, of a very dangerous and traitor- ous nature, and among them also was his Benedictine faculty under seal, expressing what power and author- ity he had from the pope to make men, women, and children here of his order; what indulgence and par- dons he could grant them", etc. He may have been a confraler or oblate of the order.

Harleian Miscellany (London, 1607), III; Challoneb, Memoirs of Missionary Priests (1742). II, 16: Douay Diaries, p. 218, sqq.; C.kmm, ,4 Benedictine Martyr in England (London, 1897); TiER.\EV-DoDD. Church History, III, IV; Morris, Troubles of our Calholic Forefathers, III.

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Dmsilla, daughter of Herod Agrippa I, was six

In this address they acknowledged the queen as their years of age at the time of her father's death at Ciesa- lawful sovereign, repudiated the claim of the pope to rea, .\. n. 44. She had already been betrothed to Epi- release them from their duty of allegiance to her, and phanes, the son of Antiochus, King of Commagene.

expressed their abhorrence of the forcible attempts already made to restore the Catholic religion and their determination to reveal any further conspiracies against the Government which should come to their knowledge. In return they ingenuously pleaded that as they were ready to render to Casar the things that were Csesar's, so they might be permitted to yield to the successor of Peter that obedience which Peter himself might have claimed under the commis- sion of Christ, and so to distinguish between their sev- eral duties and obligations as to be ready on the one hand " to spend their blood in defence of her Majesty ", but on the other "rather to lose their lives than in- fringe the lawful authority of Christ's Catholic Church". This bold repudiation of the pope's depos-

Herod had stipulated that Epiphanes should embrace the Jewish religion. The prince finallj' refu.sed to abide by his promise to do so, and the brother of Dru- silla, Herod Agrippa II, gave her in marriage to Azi- zus. King of Emesa, who, in order to obtain her hand, consented to be circumcised. It was shortly after this marriage, it would appear, that Felix, the Roman procurator of Judea, met the beautiful young queen. This meeting very likely took place at the court of Herod Agrippa II, for we can gather from Josephus that Berenice, the elder sister, whose jealou.sy the Jewish hi.storian mentions as an explanation of Dru- silla's conduct, lived with her brother at this time. Felix was struck by the great beauty of DrusUla, and determined to make her his wife. In order to per-