Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1894 — How He Died. [ARTICLE]

How He Died.

The late Catholic Bishop of Raphoe used often to tell this story with much enjoyment: “I was suddenly called,” he said, “from my home to see an unfortunate sailor who bad been cast ashore from a wreck, and was lying speechless on the ground, but not quite dead. ‘The life’s in him still, your reverenceyhe stirred a little.’ So I stooped down and said to him: ‘My poor man, you’re nearly gone; but just try to say one little word, or make one little sign to show that you are dying in the true faith.’ So he opened one of his eyes just a wee bit, and said: ‘Bloody end to the Pope!’ and so he died.