Father Joseph Adrian of the VII Dolours Joseph Cole This worthy young priest was born in Dungannon, Co.Tyrone, Ireland on 2nd June, 1865. He showed symptoms of a vocation to the priesthood from his childhood. He entered our Novitiate in Broadway and was professed on 18th August, 1884. He then joined a class of Philosophy which was pretty far advanced. He pulled up so well that in a year or two he was nearly the best of his class. He was very observant of the Holy Rule, reserved, prudent, holy and cheerful. He possessed talents of the first order and was the soul of honour and uprightness. He went to Buenos Aires when only Subdeacon. For two years he taught in our Seminary in Salto. He was then ordained priest and was afterwards employed in missionary work in “The Camp”. He was a fervent preacher, attentive to the confessional and showed zeal and earnestness in every kind of work that was assigned to him. His lungs were affected before he went abroad and it was hoped a semitropical climate would have cured him. He seemed cured and returned to the Anglo-Hibernian Province in 1891. He was altogether four years in Buenos Aires. Scarcely had he returned to our humid climate than the old affection of his lungs returned. He began to decline slowly and passed to his reward calmly and resignedly on 14th October, 1891 in the 27th year of his age. He was a young priest of great promise and likely to be an ornament to the Congregation if the Lord had spared him. “Consumatus in brevi explevit tempora multa: placita enim erat Deo anima illius: propter hoc properavit educare illium de medio iniquitatum”, Sap. 1V.13.14