Joseph MacRory [SEP] date of death
Joseph MacRory
Joseph Cardinal MacRory (; 19 March 1861 – 13 October 1945) was an Irish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Armagh from 1928 until his death. He was elevated to the cardinalate in 1929. He is regarded as the leading Catholic Churchman in Ireland during the period spanning the 1916 Rising, Partition, and the Second World War.
Early life and education.
Joseph MacRory was born on 19 March 1861 in Ballygawley, County Tyrone, one of the ten children of Francis MacRory
published, in 1945, a 71-page biography of the prelate, "The People's Primate. A Memoir of Joseph Cardinal MacRory", (Dublin, 1945).
Death.
After a brief illness, Cardinal MacRory died at the age of 84 from a heart attack at "Ara Coeli", the residence in Armagh. He was interred in St Patrick's Cathedral Cemetery, Armagh.
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- Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church
- Catholic-Hierarchy
- Reference to Cardinal MacRory in