Fr. VINCENT of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (LOGAN) Fr. Vincent was born at Smithstown, Co. Meath, his name being Nicholas Logan, on 1st December 1873. He seems to have been professed in the Argentine, taking his Vows as a Passionist on 15th August 1895. He was ordained a few years later in Buenos Ayres. While still a young priest he became Rector of Holy Cross Retreat in that city. They were years of hardship and there was much religious antagonism. He laboured with much fruit among the local Indians, and on one occasion when he had to barricade himself in a hut while being attacked, and when it looked like he had it, he was rescued by a party of convert-Indians! He later came to the Anglo-Hibernian Province (he is first listed in the 1917 catalogue) and later had an office of especial trust which he discharged with much tact and success. He was a priestly man, genial and gentlemanly in disposition. On the Good Friday of 1926 he was suddenly stricken by a serious illness. Patient and cheerful he bore with it for over a year. Then, in St. Joseph’s Retreat, Highgate Hill, on 9th August 1927, he died. By no means least among his friends was H. E. Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster, who visited him during his last illness. After Mass, celebrated by the Rector of St. Joseph’s (Fr. Malachy Gavin, C.P.) He was buried in the mausoleum, then in the monastery grounds. SOURCES: Anglo-Hibernian Catalogue (1917) No. 58 Mt. Argus Masses for Dead Cps, 1896 – 1946, p. 369. ‘THE CROSS’ 18(1927-28): 169. THE LATE FR. VINCENT (LOGAN), C.P. The news of the death of the Rev. Father Vincent, C. P. which occurred at St. Joseph’s Retreat, Highgate, London, on August 7th, will be read by many with much regret. A member of a well-known and much respected old Irish family, Father Vincent (in the world, Nicholas Logan), was born at Smithstown, Co. Meath, on December 1st, 1873. He was professed a Passionist on the Feast of the Assumption (August 15th), 1895, and was ordained a few years later in Buenos Aires, where the scenes of his earlier priestly ministry were set. While still a rather young priest, he became Rector of Holy Cross Retreat in the South American Province of the Congregation. In those earlier days there were many hardships and much religious antagonism in the Argentine Republic. Father Vincent laboured with much fruit amongst the Indians. On one occasion he had to barricade himself in a hut where he was attacked, and when fatal danger seemed very imminent he was rescued by a party of convert Indians. In his later years he returned to the Anglo-Hibernian Province, where he was chosen to fill an office of especial trust – a task which he discharged with much tact and success. Father Vincent’s most endearing characteristic, apart from his priestliness, was his genial and gentlemanly disposition – a trait that won for him the golden opinions of a host of friends both within and without the Order. On Good Friday, 1926, he was rather suddenly stricken with a serious illness, of which he was the lingering, but patient and cheerful, victim till the day of his regretted demise. By no means least amongst his friends he could count His Eminence Cardinal Bourne, the Archbishop of Westminster, who called to cheer and console him during his illness, and who wrote a very gracious letter expressing his deep sympathy with the Passionist Fathers in the loss of Father Vincent, and his regret that he was unable to attend the obsequies. Solemn Requiem Mass was celebrated by the Very Rev. Father Malachy, C.P. (Rector), at St. Joseph’s, on August 10th, in presence of a large congregation of clergy and laity, after which the interment took place in the private mausoleum in the monastery grounds. We ask our readers’ prayers for Father Vincent’s soul. R. I. P. (The Cross, Vol. XVIII, 1927-28; p.169)