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however, thick sown with trials of the most painful character. He had to struggle with a spirit of insub- ordination and faction which threatened to result in an open schism. In ISSO he was translated to the bee of Gallipoli, Italy. He died m Rome, 1904

Rev Ronald Macdonald, parish priest of Fictou, Nova Scotia, was appointed third bishop of the see He was consecrated in Pietou, 21 August, 18S1. A happy result of his rule was the restoration of peace to the diocese which had been torn by conflictmg fac- tions. His twentv-five years' episcopate was a period of great activity, and fuU of enterprise for the cause of religion The rebuilding of the cathedral at Harbor Grace, destroved bv hre in 1889, was one of the great works of his administration. In 1906 the venerable prelate was, by reason of a protracted illness, obliged to retire from the scene of his active labours, and in June of the same year he published his fare^-eU pastoral, announcing the acceptance by the Holy See of his resignation. Before severmg connexion ^-ith the diocese he was made titular Archbishop ot

was consecrated on 4 November, 1906. He is a native of Northern Bay, Newfoundland, where he was born on 13 July, 1863. He was ordained priest on 16 March, 1889, in the College of the Propaganda, of which insti- tution he is a gi-a<!uate. Returnmg to Newfoundland he was appoiiited rector of the cathedral, a position he continued to occupy until his elevation to the epis- cooacv. He possesses unusual executive ability and is fully cognizant of the requirements of the diocese. His first important move in the admmistration of the see was the inauguration, in 1907, of an ecclesiastical
 * ^ ThTpresent bishop, Rt. Rev. John March, D D.,

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Felix D. McCahtht.

Harcourt, William. See Whitbread, Thomas.

Hardee, William J., soldier, convert; b. at Savannah Georgia. U. S. A., 1817; d at Wytheville, Vnginia, 6 Nov., 1873. He graduated from the U. b Military Academy at West Point in 1838, and served in the second dragoons m the I lorida Indian war. In 1839 he was sent to the French military training school at St. Maur for professional study and attached to the French cavalry department. ,0\h.s return to the United States he was stationed in the ^^^.t^and pro moted to be captain of dragoons on 18bept., 1844. Uur- ine the Mexican war his services were conspicuous. At its^close he was made major of the twentieth cayalry and ordered to prepare a manual of tactics tor the army This he filiished in 18.56 and was then appointed commandant of cadets at West Point M the break- ing out of the Civil War he joined the Confederacy ami was given the rank of colonel m its army. He served all" through the contest, attammg the rank ot lieutenant-general and corps coinmaii.ler. Alter the war he retired to live on his PJ^^^ta ion in Alaba la^ His book. "United States Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics", pubUshed in New York, 1856, was eclectic rather than original, and drawn chiefly from French sources.

Encud. of Am. Bioo.. s, v. ^^^^^^ ^ MeEH.^N.

Hardesty, Robert. See Spenseu, William.

Hardey, Mary .\loysia, of the Society of the Sacred Heart, who established all the convents of her order up to the year 1883, in the eastern part of the United States, Canada, and Cuba; b. ^.P-^c^t^^^' M'lrvland 1809; d. at Pans. France. 1/ June. 18Nb. Both her parents (Frederick Hardey, Sarah t^paldmg) we e descSed from old Maryland Catholic families Mr Hardeyremoved to Louisiana, hisdaughterbecanie fl82" one of the first pupils of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau. She entered the order in 183o and her

extraordinary endowments soon justified her appoint- ment (1835) as superioress of St. Michael. Bishop Dubois having invited the society to New \ork, Mothers Galitzin and Hardey opened m Houston Street the first Eastern convent; this school is now located in Aqueduct Avenue. A visit to Rome, the benediction of Grec'ory XVI, and a sojourn with Mother Barat in Franc^ prepared Mother Hardey for her future work. Thenceforth she was directed in all by the blessed foundress until the death of that holy guide in I860. \midst overwhelming laboirs she maintained that unalterable serenity which was her distinctive trait. She was gifted by nature and grace for immense undertakings; she was of simple manners, her words were few and kind, and she had great power of organi- zation When asked on her death-bed the number of her foundations she replied: "I have never counted them ■ I went where Obedience sent me" ; that sentence delineates her character and her career. This alpha- betic list of thirty convents, of which a few are now closed, repre.sents the toil of more than forty years (from New York, 1841, to Atlantic C'ty 188. ): Albany (New York), Astoria (New \ork), Atlantic Citv (New Jersey), Boston (Massachusetts), Buffalo, (New York), Ciiicinnati (Ohio), Clifton (Cincinnati, Ohio), Detroit (Michigan), Eden Hall (Torresdale, J Pennsylvania), Elmhurst (Rhode Island), Grosse f Pointe (Michigan), Halifax (Nova Scotia), Havana (Cuba). Kenwood (Albany, New York), London Ontario), Montreal (Quebec^. McSherrj-stown (Penn- sylvania), Manhattanville (New Ycrk), >>ew Jcork City (Aqueduct Avenue, and Madison Avenue) 1 hila- delphia (Pennsylvania., Providence (Rhode Island. RocliestL'r (New York), Rosecroft (Maryland) Sancti ■Sniritus (( 'uha), Sandwich(Ontario), Sault-au-RecoUet Biontreal), Saint-Jacques (Quebec), St. John (New Brunswick), St. Vincent (Quebec). ^ .,, „ ^^^ The hardships and perplexities entailed on one woman bv all the.se foundations are hard to realize in TeTe days when travelling is so easy ='nd riioiu-y so nlentifui: Ten voyages to Europe, five to Cuba and constant journeyings as mother ,novincia or visitatrix forced her to undergo much fatigue and peril. Her mramount concern was not the erection of convents but the formation of fervent religious as consecrated teachers- and where the world saw an executive and a benefact'ress. her communities found simply a vigilant buttendor inother, an unfailing friend v,' -se nnjmory they bequeathed as a sacred legacy. Ihe Cm War rent lerSieart. e.,ually bound to No^h and South^ food, money, hospital supplies, provisions for the Holy Sicrfice went wherever suffering appeale 1. Her name became a household word. A\ ith Northern Tea^rs heHnfluence wasexerted on behalf of Southern convents- and she herself, passing through contending annies, brought aid to the south-west.rn hou^s. Libera lienefactions went to Cuban homes 186(>-<0 to Chicago, after its great fire; to I ranee, l^'""' ■ ° the Soufh when ravaged with fever; in a jord to sorrow and necessity, always and everp-here. She provided twenty-five free schools in the States and tanada- beyond computing is the number of young eWs educated gratuitously m her academies; while she dehcate y assisted many young aspirants to the priest- hood t^fulfil their vocations. Kenwood, Albany, became her residence and the noyices' home in 1S6G l!d^^n sL erected the buil.lings which now contain the eeneral novitiate for North America.

In 1871 she was appointed assistant general, an office requiring residence in the mother-house, Paris^ She inspected first, as visitatrix. all convents of the o de n the United States and Canada, and embarked for Europe in 1872. In the centra government, her wisdom and experience were inva viable. Tvhile the Example of her self-effacing humility ^vas no ess precious. She aided the superiors-general in Msita- t^ums and foundations of French and Spanish convents,