Fr. Stephen Magee, C.P. Copied from Liber Defunctorum Congregationis Nostrae Religiosorum, preserved in Central Archives, St. Paul’s Retreat, Mount Argus, Dublin. The following entry is in the handwriting of Fr. Salvian Nardocci, C.P. The deceased, Fr. Stephen of the B.V.Mary, alias Patrick Magee. was born in Rathmines, Dublin, June 25, 1849, was clothed with the Holy Habit at Broadway, on 16 of June 1865, made his profession on 17 of the same month of 1866. Died at Holy Cross, Belfast, on the morning of 21 February, 1888. Pasted under the above entry is the following from The Morning News and Examiner, Belfast, Thursday 1888. DEATH OF THE REV. FATHER STEPHEN MAGEE, PASSIONIST, ARDOYNE. It will be with sincere regret that the Catholics of Belfast will have observed in our obituary columns the notice of the death of Rev. Fr Stephen Magee of the Passionist Order, Ardoyne, and the circumstances will be thought all the sadder from the comparatively early age at which the deceased was cut short in his priestly labourers. His lamented death took place rather suddenly from apoplexy early on Tuesday morning and must have occasioned a sad shock to all who knew him personally. Although the deceased has been about 16 was a priest of the Passionist Order the scene of his labours has lain mostly in other districts than Belfast, he having only been in Ardoyne since a short time before last Christmas. Fr. Stephen was born in Dublin in the year 1849, and received the Passionist Habit at Broadway in Worcestershire, on the 16th of June, in 1865, taking the name in religion of Stephen of the Mother of God. He was professed the following year and pursued his ecclesiastical studies in St Anne’s Retreat, Sutton, Lancashire, and afterwards at St. Paul’s, Mount Argus, Dublin. He received the Sacrament of Holy Orders from the hands of Dr Manning at Hammersmith, London and the 25th of May 1872, and since then has been the most zealous and unceasing labourer in the missionary work of his order. During the years that followed ordination Fr. Stephen was attached to the various houses of his Order in London, besides going through the arduous and trying labours of many missions and retreats at a great number of places scattered over England Ireland and Scotland. Although the health of the reverend gentleman was never robust, his demise on Tuesday morning was almost as unseen as it was melancholy. By all who knew and admired the deceased missionary and by all who at any time received the benefit of his religious consolation and advice, the intelligence of his sudden and premature death will be received with feelings of the deepest and sincerest sorrow. The Solemn Office of the Dead and Requiem Mass will be celebrated at Holy Cross Church at 11 o’clock today, immediately after which the interment will take place.