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as the greatest glory of the C'olumban schools. His namesake, the chronicler, died some six years before him.

Healt, Ireland's Ancient Schools and Scholars (5th ed., Dublin, 1908); Life of Marianus Scotus by a contemporarv

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Story of lona (Edinburgh, 1909).

John Healy.

Kelly, Denis. See Ross, Diocese of.

Kelly, Michael. See Sydney, Akchdiocese of.

Kelly .William Bernard. See Geraldton, Dio- cese OF.

Kemble, John, Venerable, martyr, b. at Rhydi- car Farm, St. Weonard's, Herefordshire, 1599; d. at Widemarsh Common, Hereford, 22 August, 1679; son of John Kemble, formerly of Kemble, Wiltshire, afterwards of Llangarren, and of Urchinfield (now part of the parish of Hardwicke), and Anne, daughter of John Morgan, of The Waen, Skenfrith, Monmouth- shire. His uncle, George Kemble, of Pembridge Cas- tle, Welsh Newton, was the father of Captain Richard Kemble, who saved Charles II at the battle of Wor- cester. Ordained priest at Douai College, 23 Febru- arj', 162.5, he was sent on the mission 4 June, and in his old age lived with his nephew at Pembridge Castle. Arrested there by Captain John Scudamore of Kent- church, he was lodged in Hereford Gaol in November, 1678, and condemned under 27 Eliz. c. 2 at the end of March following. Ordered to London with Father Charles Baker, he was lodged in Newgate and inter- viewed by Oates, Bedloe, and Dugdale. Sent back to Hereford, the aged priest spent three more months in gaol. Before leaving for his execution he smoked a pipe and drank a cup of sack with the under-sheriff, this giving rise to the Herefordshire expressions " Kemble pipe", and " Kemble cup", meaning a part- ing pipe or cup. Sir John Hawkins in a note to " The Compleat Angler" turns Kemble into a Protestant in Mary's reign. One of the martjT's hands is preserved at St. Francis Xavier's, Hereford. His body rests in Welsh Newton churchyard.

Bromage. Ven. Fr. Joh'n Kemble (London, 1902); Catholic Record Society's Publications (London, privately printed 190.5—), II, 29.5, 297; GiLLOW, Bibl. Diet. Eng. Cath., s. v.; Akchbold in Did. Nat. Biog., s. v.; Challoner, Memoirs of the Missionary Priests (Leamington, s. d.), II, 411; Walton, Compleat Angler (London, ISOS), 394.

John B. W.unewright.

Kemp, John, Cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Chancellor of England; b. at Wye, Kent, about 1380; d. at Lambeth, 22 March, 1454. He was the son of Thomas Kemp of Ollantigh, near Ashford, and Beatrice Lewknor, and was educated at Merton Col- lege, Oxford. Having become doctor of laws, he practised as an ecclesiastical lawyer with such success that in 1415 he was made dean of the Court of Arches .•md vicar-general to the Archbishop of Canterbury. King Henry V also utilized his diplomatic talents in several embassies. Appointed Bishop of Rochester by papal provision, 26 June, 1419, he was consecrated in the following December. In 1421 he was translated to Chichester, and eight months later to London, by provision of Martin V. On the death of King Henry V, whom he had served as Chancellor of Normandy, he was made a member of the new council, in which capac- ity he supported Cardinal Beaufort against Hum- phrey, Duke of Gloucester. In 1426 he was made first Chancellor and then -Vrchbishop of York.

His political differences with Gloucester led to his resigning the chancellorship in 1432, but he continued to be active in public life as a .supporter of the peace party, who wished to end the long war with France. In 1433 he was the head of the important but fruitless embassy to the congress of Arras, when a settlement was vainly attempted under the auspices of the papal legates. In 1439 he was created cardinal by Eugene

IV, his title being Sancta Balbina. After the deaths of his opponent Gloucester and his friend Beaufort, he set himself to resist the power of the Duke of Suffolk, and in 1450 he was again chancellor. In this capacity he put down the Kentish rebellion, and amid the grow- ing hkelihood of civil war remained the mainstay of the king's party against the Yorkists. In 1452 Nicholas V transferred him from Y'ork to Canterbury, giving him the paUium on 24 Sept. The same pope made him a cardinal bishop by divichng the See of Porto from that of Santa Rufina and making Kemp bishop of the last-named diocese. His last days were agitated by the tumultuous proceedings of the London citizens, who, supported by the Yorkists, were threatening him with violence, when the end came. He lies 'ouried in Canterbury cathedral. More statesman than bishop, he was accused with reason of neglecting his dioceses, but his private life was distinguished by wisdom, learning, and uprightness.

Hook. Lives of Ike Archbishops of Canterbury (London, 1S60- 1884); WlLLl.tMS, Lives of the English Cardinals (London, 1S6S): Gairdner, Preface to the Paston Letters (London, 1872); Tout in Diet. Nat. Biog., s. v.

Edwin Burton. Kempis, Thom.\s a. See Thomas a Kempis.

Kenia, Vicariate Apostolic of, coextensive with the civil province of Kenia in British East Africa, to which the station of Limuru is added. It extends east as far as the Rivers Tana and Seca, west to the Seca, south to the mountains of Aberdare and the River Guaso-LTgiro, while its northern limits are as yet inde- terminate. Originally part of the Vicariate Apostolic of Northern Zanzibar, it was first entered by several priests of the Institute Consolata of Turin. In Sep- tember, 1905, the Sacred Congregation of the Propa- ganda erected it into an independent mission, and in 1909 the mission was in turn created a vicariate Apostolic. Its superior. Father Philippus Perlo, was made titular Bishop of Maronia anil the first head of the new vicariate. The climate of Kenia is, for the most part, temperate and healthy. The language of the natives is chieflv Kikuju and Kiswaili. The popu- lation is estimated at between 2,000,000 and 3,000,000, almost entirely savage, and given over to various forms of fetichism and nature-w-orship. Conversions, however, are being gradually effected. The vicariate includes 17 regular priests of the Institute Consolata; 10 European catechists; SO chapels — the more im- portant of which are located at Tusu-Kasongori, Fort HaU, Limuru, Kekondi, Niere, Mogoiri, and Karema; schools at the different stations; 1 orphan- age; the Order of the Institute Consolata with 8 houses and 27 religious, and the nuns of St. Vincent Cottolengo with 6 houses and 31 sisters.

Missiones Catholica: (Rome. 1907); Piolet, Lea Missions, V; Gcrarchia Cattolica (Rome, 1909); Ann. Eccl. (Rome, 1908). St.inley J. QUINN.

Kennedy, James, Bishop of St. .\ndrews, Scotland, b. about 1406; d. 10 May, 1466. Of the ancient house of Kennedy of Dunure, he was a son of Lady Mary, daughter of King Robert III, and was therefore a cousin of James II, then reigning in Scotland. After studying on the Continent, he was appointed Bishop of Dunkeld in 1438, and .\bbot of Scone soon after- wards, and in 1440 he succeeded Henry ^^'ardlaw as Bishop of St. Andrews. Appointed chancellor in 1444, he showed himself a vigorous reformer of the civil and ecclesiastical abuses rampant in Scotland, and conse- quently incurred the enmity of m;uiy of the nobles. Kennedy soon resigned the chancellorship, finding it incompatible with his ecclesiastical duties, to which he devoted himself with the greatest assiduity. His zeal for learning was shown by his foundation and munifi- cent endowment, in 1450, of St. Salvator's College, St. Andrews, with the sanction and approval of Nicho- las V and Pius II. He introduced the Franciscan Observants into St. Andrews, in 1458; and he also