Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 3, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1860 — Death and Funeral of the Mother Abbcss of the Nuns of America. [ARTICLE]

Death and Funeral of the Mother Abbcss of the Nuns of America.

Mary Agnes O’Conor, Mother Abbess of the Order ®f Mercy, in New Y’ork, died on Tuesday? last, after a long and eev- re illness. The burial service was perform- d this morning at the Catholic Chapel, in Houston street, by Archbishop Hughes, assisted by the Right Reverened Mr. Ktarrs, Vicar General. The coffin, draped in black, and covered with beautiful flowers, was placed in thb centre of the Chapel, three large tapers burning on each side. The Chapel was hung At halfpast nine a jong procession of the nuns entered, each one bearing a wax taper, and, after kneeling for a'moment by the bier, they knelt in the stalls at each side. The mass for the dead.yvas then sung by the Archbishop, assisted jiy Mr. Starrs and twelve priests from the principal churches ofthecity. After the ceremonies were concluded, the coffin, with four paU-bearers on each side, and followed by a long train of priests and acolytes, was borne in procession to the Cathedra], where It wan deposited in the burial-vault of the Order. The imposing procession, as it passed through the streets, attracted considerable attention.— N. Y■ Evening Posl.