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manner which shows how shadowy was the line which eeparated the Monothelite from the Monophysite. (See HoNORius I; Constantinople, Councils op, A.

III.)

See the Acta of the Sixth General Council in Hardouin, ConciUa, III; Manbi, XI; Hefele, History of Church CounciU, V (Eng. trans.); Chapman, The Condemnation of Pope Honoriua^ reprinted from Dublin Review, July, 1906 (January, 1907), by the English Catholic Truth Society.

F. J. Bacchus.

McAuley, Catherine. See Merct, Sisters of.

McOabe, Edward, cardinal, b. in Dublin, 1816; d. at Kingstown, 11 Feb., 1885; he was the son of poor par- ent^ educated at Father Doyle's school on the Quays and at Maynooth College, and was ordained priest in 1839. After his ordination he served successively as cu- rate in Clontarf and at the pro-cathedral, Marlbiorough St. in Dublin; and such was the zeal and energy he dis- played, joined to intellectual capabilities far beyond the ordinary, that he was selected, in 1854, for the See of Grahamstown in South Africa. He was reluctant, however, to take upon himself the burden of the ep)is- copate in an unknown land, and in 1856 became parish pnest of St. Nicholas Without, in Dublin. In 1865 he was transferred to the more important parish of Kings- town, and became a member of the chapter and vicar- general. For the twelve following jrears his was the ordinary life of a zealous, hard-working pastor, ambi- tious of nothing but to serve the spiritual and temporal needs of his people. Cardinal Cullen had always held him in the nighest esteem, and when, in 1877, the burden of years compelled him to seek assistance he selected Dr. McCabe, who was in due course conse- crated titular Bishop of Gadara. The following year Cardinal Cullen died, and in 1879 Dr. McCabe became Archbishop of Dublin. Three years later he received the cardinal's hat. These were troubled times in Ire- land, the years of the Land League and of the National League, of violent agitation and savage coercion, when secret societies were strong in Dublin, and the Pha?nix Park murders and many others of less note were com- naitted. Like his predecessor, Cardinal McCabe had a distrust of popular movements. Brought up in the city, he was unacc|uainted ^th agrarian conditions and unaole to appreciate the wron^ which the Irish ten- ants suffered, and he too readily identified with the political movement under Pamell and Davitt the many outrages committed by the people. In pas- torals and public speeches he rangea himself against agitation and on the side of government and law, with the result that Nationalist newspapers and public men attacked him as a "Castle" bishop, who favoured coercion and was an enemy of the people. His life was threatened and for a time he was under the pro- tection of the police.

The Times SLadThe Freeman's Journal, 12 Feb., 1885; Davftt, FaU of Feudalism (London, 1904).

E. A. D'Alton.

Maccabees. See Machabees.

MacOaghwell (Cavellus), Hugh, archbishop and theologian, b. at Saul, Co. Down, 1571; d. 22 Sept., 1626. He received his earliest education in his native

Slace and then passed to a famous school in the Isle of [an. On his return to Ireland he was selected by Hugh, Prince of Tyrone, as tutor to his sons Henry and Hugh. He was sent by the prince as special messen- ger to the Court of Spain to solicit aid for the Ulster forces. During his stav at Salamanca, where the Court then resided, he frequented the schools of the university and took doctor's degrees in divinity. Soon afterwards he gave up all worldlv greatness to enter the Franciscan order. He enjoyecl a ^at reputation sa a theologian, and his commentaries on John Duns Scotus were held in high repute. Vemulaeus sajrs that he was conspicuous for his virtues and that his holiness of life and profound learning made him the jBirade of his time. It was principally due to his

m&t influence at the Spanish Court that the Iri^ Franciscan College of St. Anthony was founded at Louvain. After his entry into the order, Hugh taught for some time in the University of Salamanca, tli^n he was appointed superior and lecturer at St. Anthony's, Louvam. Among his pupils were John Colgan, Pat- rick Fleming, Hugh Ward, Anthony Hickey, etc. He was summoned to Rome to lecture in the convent of Aracoeli; but his energies- were not limit^ to his work as professor. He was employed by the pope on several commissions. He gave substantial help to Father Luke Wadding in founding and developing St. Isidore's and the Ludovisi colleges for Irish students. On 17 March. 1626, Urban VIII, passing over all the other candidates, nominated Hugh MacCaghwell Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland; the consecration took place on 7 June^ in the church of St. Isidore. Thomas Walsh, Archbishop of Cashel, was consecrated at the same time. The consecrating prelate was Gabriel, Cardinal de Trejo, a great friend of the Irish. His health had been much weakened by his manifold duties and the great austerities he prac- tised. In making the visitations of the provinces of the order he always travelled on foot, and passed much time in prayer and fasting. While making preparation for nis departure for his arduous mission ne was seized with fever and died. He was buried in the church of St. Isidore, and his friend Don John O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, had a monument placed over his grave. Nicolaus Vemulaeus delivered an oration before the university commemorating the virtues and learning of the archbishop, which was published at Cologne, 1657.

MacCaghwell's principal works are: "Scoti Com- mentaria in quatuor litros Sententiarum", 2 vols., folio, Antwerp, 1620 (to this work is prefixed a life of Scotus); " Scoti Commentaria seu Reportata Parisien- sia"; "QusEstiones quodlibetales"; **Quffistiones in libros de anima"; *' Quajstiones in metaphysicam"; etc. He also wrot43 a work in Irish, which was printed at the Irish press in the college of St. Anthony, Lou- vain, in 1018. entitled "Scathaiu sacramuinthe iia Aithrighe", that is, "The Mirror of the Sacmment of Penance ".

Wadding -Sbarale A, Scriptores Ord. Mtn. (Rome, 1806); Joannes a S. Ant., Bibliotheca Univ. Franciscana (Madrid, 1732); Vernuljkus, Acad. Lovaniensis; Idem, Rhetorum Coll. Parcensis (Cologne, 1657); Wabb's works, ed. Hariub (Dublin. 1764); O'Reilly, Irish Writers (Dublin, 1820); Stdart, Hist, o/ Armagh; Rbnehan, Collections on Irish Cath. //wtorw (Dub- lin, 1861); MoRAN, Spicilegium Ossoriense, Ist series; Brady, Episcopal Succession xn England, Scotland and Ireland (Rome, 1876); Bbenan, Ecclesiastical Historu of Ireland CDublin, 1866); Meehan, Irish Hierarchy in the 17th Century (Dublin, 1877); Webb, Compendium of Irish Biography (Dublin, 1878). Many important aoouments and letteis relating to Hugh MacCagh- well are presorved in the archives of the Franciscan convent,

Dublin. Gregory Cleary.

MacOarthy, Denib Florence, well-known Irish poet of the nineteenth century, b. in Lower O'Connell Street, Dublm, 26 May, 1817; d. at Blackrock, Dub- lin, 7 April, 1882. His early life, before he devoted himself to literary pursuits, calls for little remark. From a learned priest, who had spent much time in. Spain, he acquired that intimate knowledge of Span- isn, which he was later to turn to such good advan- tage. In April, 1834, before he was yet seventeen, he contributed his first verses to the "Dublin Satirist". He was one of that brilliant coterie of writers whose utterances through the "Nation" influenced so pow- erfully the Irish people in the middle of the last cen- tury. In this organ, started by Charles Gavan Duffy in 1842, appeared over the pseudonym of Desmond most of his patriotic verse. In 1846 he was called to the Irish bar, but never practised. In the same year he edited "The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland", which he prefaced with an essay on the early history and religion of his countrymen. He also edited about this time "The Book of Irish Ballads" (by varioua