Father Leonard of the Sacred Heart. 31.Dec.1889. Province Of St. Joseph. The Anglo-Hibernian Province announces with sorrow the death of this venerable and much esteemed priest. He was born in London on the 11th of January 1822 and was called Alfred Fryer. His parents had the happy lot of seeing three of their sons raised to the priesthood and three of their daughters consecrated to God amongst the nuns of St. Ursula. After having spent some years in St. Edmund’s College he went to Rome and prosecuted his ecclesiastical studies with great success. In 1847 he was ordained priest and went back to England where various missions had the benefit of his administrations. In the twenty-eighth year of his age he entered our Novitiate in Broadway, and made his profession there in Oct. 1851 and was at once employed giving missions and spiritual retreats. The last time he took part in missionary work was in Liverpool in 1886, and towards the end of that mission he was struck with apoplexy. He lived however for some years afterwards, and on the 31st of December surrounded by his sorrowful brethren he placidly gave his soul to God in the sixty-seventh year of his age . He was noted for his childlike simplicity and earnest piety and was altogether an edifying religious. To every member of our Congregation he was an object of love and a perfect model of the observance of our Holy Rule. May his example remain vividly impressed upon us. Requiescat in pace.