Item 144 - Letter from Fr Edward Corish SJ to [ ] concerning Archbishop Kelly and his intention to take more territory from the Franciscan Fathers

Born: 14 December 1862, London, England
Entered: 29 November 1884, Loyola House, Dromore, County Down
Ordained: 01 August 1897, St Francis Xavier, Gardiner Street, Dublin
Final Vows: 15 August 1901
Died: 08 January 1951, Loyola College, Grimshaw Street, Watsonia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Australiae Province (ASL)

Transcribed : HIB to ASL 05/04/1931

1884-1886: Loyola House, Dromore, County Down, Novitiate
1886-1890: Milltown Park, Dublin, Rhetoric and then Philosophy
1890-1893: Clongowes Wood College SJ, Naas, County Kildare, Regency
1893-1894: Mungret College SJ, Mungret, County Limerick, Regency
1894-1895: Milltown Park, Sandford Road, Dublin, Theology
1895-1897: Colegio del Jesus, Tortosa, Catalonia, Spain (ARA), Theology
1897-1899: Mungret College SJ, Mungret, County Limerick, Teaching
1899-1900: Oude Abdij, Drongen, Belgium, Tertianship
1900-1902: Belvedere College SJ, Great Denmark Street, Dublin, Minister, teaching
1902-1908: Xavier College SJ, Barkers Road, Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Teaching; Minister from 1903
1908-1913: St Francis Xavier, MacKenzie Street, Lavender Bay, Sydney NSW, Australia, Australia, Curate
1912-1913: Minister, Curate and Teaching
1913-1918: St Mary’s Church, Miller Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Superior from 11/06/1913; Prefect of Church
1918-1922: Manresa, Burwood Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Curate
1919-1922: Minister and Procurator; Curate
1922-1923: St Mary’s Church, Miller Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Curate
1923-1931: Manresa, William Street, Norwood, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, Superior from 28/07/1923 to 06/03/1930, Procurator, Curate
1930-1931: Curate and teaching (ASL from 1931)
1931-1934: St Mary’s Church, Miller Street, Sydney NSW, Australia, Curate and Assistant Editor of “Jesuit Directory”
1934-1940: Manresa, Burwood Road, Hawthorn, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Minister and Curate
1940-1948: Canisius College, Pittwater Road, Pymble NSW, Australia, Spiritual father
1948-1951: Loyola College, Grimshaw Street, Watsonia, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Praying for the Society

◆ David Strong SJ “The Australian Dictionary of Jesuit Biography 1848-2015”, 2nd Edition, Halstead Press, Ultimo NSW, Australia, 2017 - ISBN : 9781925043280 :
He was born in England and received his early education from the Benedictines at St Augustine’s Abbey, Ramsgate, Kent. In spite of this, he Entered the Society in the Irish Province at Dromore, County Down.

1886-1890 After First Vows he made a Juniorate at Milltown Park Dublin and St Stanislaus College Tullabeg, and then did a year of Philosophy at Milltown Park.
1890-1893 He was sent for Regency to Clongowes Wood College
1893-1895 He continued his regency at Mungret College Limerick.
1895 He began his Theology studies at Milltown Park, and was then sent to Tortosa in Spain, in the Aragon Province, and was Ordained there after two years, receiving a special dispensation due to health.
1897-1899 He was sent to Mungret teaching
1899-1900 He made tertianship at Drongen.
1900-1902 He was sent teaching to Belvedere College Dublin, where he was also Minister and Prefect of the Church.
1902-1908 He arrived in November and was sent to teach at Xavier College Kew, where he also served as Minister.
1908-1913 He was sent to the Lavender Bay Parish
1913-1918 and 1922-1923 He was sent to St Mary’s Parish in North Sydney, where he was also Superior for a while.
1918-1922 He was sent to the Hawthorn Parish
1923-1931 He was sent to the Norwood Parish where he was also Superior for a time.
1931-1934 He returned to St Mary’s in North Sydney. While there he turned a former factory into Manresa Hall
1934-1940 He returned to the Hawthorn Parish. Hawthorn parishioners spoke of his kindness and fine social gifts.
1940-1948 He was sent to Canisius College Pymble as Spiritual Father and examiner of candidates. Whilst here he also gave a monthly day of recollection to Cardinal Gilroy
1948 His final mission was to Loyola Watsonia, for care and prayer.

His early ill health accounts for the sporadic nature of his studies in Philosophy and Theology. In Australia no one would have thought that he had suffered from ill health. He was a most zealous man, a whirlwind of activity, throwing himself heart and soul into any work that he was given to do, and doing it very well.

He was a kind and charitable man always willing to give a helping hand to others. As a Superior he probably did not allow the men enough scope and was inclined to very fixed views, and he struggled when dealing with others who had equally fixed but opposing views. he did great work especially at North Sydney and Norwood. He had a fine old gentlemanly manner,

◆ Irish Province News
Irish Province News 1st Year No 2 1926
Residence. SS. CORDIS, SYDNEY :

In 1878 Archbishop Vaughan handed over the Parish of North Shore to the Society. The church was exceedingly small, had very little church furniture and the Fathers were obliged to hire a Presbytery at 16s. a week. The Residence S.S. Cordis completed by Fr D Connell in 1923. The parish now numbers some 3,000 souls. It has two splendid primary schools, with an attendance of about 740 children. These schools. the Brothers' residence and the hall capable of holding 1,000 people, owe their existence to the energy of Fr Corish. In 1924 there were 45,000 Confessions heard, and about 50,000 Communions given. Attached to the church are two Sodalities, a Catholic club, a debating club, an athletic club a tennis club, and a branch of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul.

◆ https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/172516298

Death of Rev. E. Corish, S.J.

Rev. Edward Corish, S.J., who died on Sunday in his 89th year, was well-known in Melbourne a generation ago, when he was attached to the Immaculate Conception parish, Hawthorn.
Born in London in 1862, he entered the Society of Jesus 66 years ago, studied in Ireland and Spain and came to Australia in 1902. He was for six' years at Xavier College, Kew, and later was transferred to Sydney, where he was stationed at St. Francis Xavier's parish, Lavender Bay. Afterwards, he was superior at the Jesuit house at Ridge-street, North Sydney, and in 1918 returned to Melbourne and remained at Hawthorn until 1922. Thereafter he was at Norwood, Adelaide, again at Sydney, and once more at Hawthorn. In 1940, Fr. Corish took up residence at Canisius College, Pynible, N.S.W., where he remained until 1949, when he was transferred to "Loyola," Watsonia. Father Corish was distinguished for his energetic priestly zeal and for a genial disposition that won for him an unusually large circle of friends. On the occasion of his golden jubilee of ordination in 1947 the Catholic Weekly, Sydney, said of him that he had become a legendary figure. "His friends and hundreds of people who have never even met him delight in telling stories about him—of his encyclopaedic knowledge of streets and of transport timetables, and of how he was reprimanded for jumping on a moving electric train at Wynward station when past his 80th birthday."

Solemn Requiem Mass for Father Corish was celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Hawthorn, on Tuesday. Archbishop Mannix, Bishop Vesters, sixty regular and diocesan priests, Marist Brothers, nuns and a large number of parishioners were present. Dr. John G. Hurley represented the Old Xaverians' Association.

Archbishop Mannix 'presided and was attended by Very Rev. W. O'Collins, S.J., and Rev. G. Lawlor, S.J. Very Rev. W. T. Drake, M.S.C., was assistant priest. Rev. E. Riordan, S.J., was celebrant; Rev. T. Bourke, S.J., deacon; Rev. J. Fitzgerald, S.J., sub-deacon; and Rev. J. Byrne, S.J., master of ceremonies. The priests' choir sang the music of the Mass, cantors being Revs.
G. Coghlan, M. Rafter, C. Miller and S. Lennon, S.J.

Archbishop Mannix preached the panegyric (the report of which will be published next week), and gave the final absolution. The funeral left the church for the Boroondara Cemetery, Kew,
Archbishop Mannix and several priests assisting in the last prayers.