A Passionist Jubilarian. BORN at Mevagh Co. Donegal, close on seventy-five years ago, Brother Norbert McFadden C.P., Mount Argus, will attain his Golden Jubilee as a Passionist on 18th March. This venerable religious made his novitiate in St. Saviour’s Retreat, Broadway, Worcestershire, and during the long period of fifty years has been attached to various houses of the Congregation. Shortly after the foundation of the Passionists in Australia Brother Norbert joined his brethren under the Southern Cross, and laboured there for a dozen years, after which he returned home. The Jubilarian is brother of the late Canon James McFadden, of Gweedore and Glenties, who, in troublous days, fought valiantly for the rights of his people and suffered for his country’s cause. Brother Norbert has ever shown himself to be a devoted religious and fervent imitator of St. Paul of the Cross. His life has been one hidden from the world, but he has been laying up spiritual treasures for himself in the seclusion of the cloister by the faithful observance of the duties of the ascetic life of a religions. We are pleased to state that notwithstanding his advanced years he is still an active member of his community. In offering Brother Norbert our heartfelt congratulations on his Jubilee, we wish him many years of health and strength in the service of that Divine Master to whose call he responded fifty years ago, and Whom he has served with such fidelity, as a Passionist religious, during the vicissitudes of half a century. (Cross, Vol. X, 1919-20; p. 297) BROTHER NORBERT (McFADDEN), C.P. As briefly announced in our last issue, the death of Brother Norbert took place in Mount Argus on September 21st. Born on August 3rd, 1845, at Mevagh, in the Diocese of Raphoe, he entered our Novitiate at Broadway, Worcs., in 1870, and was professed on March 18th in the following year. He came of a well-known and deeply religious family, and he took a pardonable pride in having as his brother the late Canon McFadden of Gweedore and Glenties fame. Brother Norbert was a fluent Irish speaker and read with avidity the literature of his native land. In 1890, he volunteered for Australia, and was of great assistance to our Fathers there in those pioneer days. In 1915, he returned to Mount Argus. Bearing with exemplary patience and resignation the burden and infirmities of his years, he calmly awaited the end. Conscious to the last, and assisted by his brethren, he passed peacefully to his reward in his 79th year. R.I.P. (Cross, Vol. XIV, 1923-24; p.205)