Holy Cross, Ardoyne, BELFAST. Very Rev. and dear Father, In less than two months after Father Gregory Callaghan had passed away, death claimed another valuable member of our Province in the person of Father Frederick. But unlike Father Gregory, whose work was finished and whose years had almost touched the proverbial limit of three score and ten, Father Frederick was cut off unexpectedly in the prime of life and in the midst of his activity. He had but just closed a mission and had returned to his monastery at Ardoyne. when he was struck down by the illness which proved to be his last. Almost before its fatal character was fully recognised, the end came; and on the morning of the 21st of June, surrounded by his brethren, Father Frederick received the last Sacraments with edifying fervour and a few minutes later peacefully breathed forth his soul to God. Father Frederick of the Sacred Heart, known in the world as Patrick Senanus Heffernan, was a Kilkenny man, and was born on July 9th, 1868. Only in his forty-third year. he had spent twenty years in the priesthood. and these twenty were spent where the priestly life was no sinecure, where It demanded sacrifice from him, which he always cheerfully and readily made. Immediately after his ordination he was appointed Vice-Master of novices, from which office he was translated in 1892 to this Retreat of Holy Cross. For four years he laboured here and that those years are still well remembered for his kindness to men and his zeal for God’s glory was evidenced by the great tribute of sorrow shown for him and the sympathy tendered to us at his obsequies. But the real work of his life was done in Australia. He was just becoming well-known here when volunteers were asked for. Father Frederick offered to take his share in that then very uphill work. His offer was accepted. In Australia his genial disposition. and untiring zeal, and utter unselfishness made him wanted everywhere, and unsparingly he spent himself for fifteen years. Besides the missions which he gave in the back places of New South Wales and Western Australia, where at times the most ordinary conveniences of life could not be had, he gave numerous retreats to convents and confraternities. He was Superior of our Retreat in Goulburn, and again in Marrickville where he bore cheerfully the strain of slender finance that none knew of it except his superiors at home and the God in Whose Providence he trusted. Of the esteem men had for him in Australia, we want no higher testimony than that of the great Cardinal Moran, Archbishop of Sydney. In a letter written on August 31st, 1910, to the Bishop of the diocese in which Father Frederick was to labour in these countries — Cardinal Moran writes: and it will serve for his panegyric:– ‘The Rev. Father Frederick Heffernan, of the Passionist Order, has for several years laboured in this diocese as superior of the Passionist Monastery and parochial district of Marrickville, and as missionary giving missions in various parochial districts. At all times he has proved himself a most zealous, enlightened and devoted priest. His missions have been most successful, and his parochial administration most fruitful of blessings to the faithful of the district. I am sincerely grateful to him for his hearty co-operation in every diocesan work, and wish him most cordially every blessing in carrying on the same glorious work of religion wheresoever his lot may be cast. We, his brethren, may be forgiven if we are proud of that testimony, written by the Cardinal’s own hand, and you will little wonder if there is deep sorrow in our hearts that the Cardinal’s wish for the ‘same glorious work’ here must be, at least in part, unfulfilled. Father Frederick’s life was, indeed, one of hard and earnest and unselfish work: but he knew that work was not everything and a solid and unobtrusive piety was the main spring of all his labours and gave a supernatural bent to all that he did. He will long be remembered for his genial, kindly disposition, his charity, his unselfishness, his zeal; and the prayers of his brethren and of the many, both in these countries and under the Southern Cross, who benefited by his example and his ministrations will not fail him before God’s Throne. I remain, very rev. and dear Father, Your affectionate Brother in Christ, Hubert of St. Mary Magdalen.