Religion - Year 9 - The Catholic Church in Australia: Daniel Mannix

Daniel Mannix
Daniel Mannix (1864-1963), Catholic archbishop, was born on 4 March 1864 at his father's substantial tenant farm Deerpark, Charleville (Rathluirc), Cork, Ireland, son of Timothy Mannix and his wife Ellen, née Cagney. He was born in the year of the Syllabus of Errors, six years before Vatican Council I. When celebrating his last Mass on the opening day of Vatican II (11 October 1962) he drank from a gold copy of the fifteenth-century de Burgh chalice presented by his friend President de Valera of Ireland, and wore a handwoven replica of the vestments presented by the Empress of Austria to St Patrick's College, Maynooth, and worn by the Archbishop of Dublin at Mannix's own ordination (8 June 1890)...continue reading...