Dundee Courier Tuesday, 15 December 1874 The ceremony of baptising the bell was celebrated , in St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church, Dundee, on Sunday evening. The ceremony was preceded by a sermon by Father Bertrand, a friar of the Order of St Francis, who explained what place a blessed bell had in the Roman Catholic worship. The sermon was very …
1913 – The Very Rev. Mgr. Robert Fraser, D D. was nominated Bishop of Dunkeld
Aberdeen Press and Journal – Saturday 10 May 1913 Roma, Friday The Very Rev. Mgr. Robert Fraser, D.D., rector of the Scots’ College here, has been nominated Bishop of Dunkeld, in succession the late Bishop MacFarlane. (Reuter) Fraser was born at Wardhouse, Aberdeenshire, 10th August, 1858. entered Blairs College on 18th July, 1872; and passed in October, 1875, Edmund’s College, …
Bishop MacFalane’s Requiem Mass (1912)
St Andrew’s pro-Cathedral, Dundee, was crowded with a sorrowing congregation on the occasion of Bishop MacFarlane’s funeral. From every part of Scotland priests came to pay tribute to the memory of one whom they loved and respected. The Cathedral was draped in black in every part, the vacant episcopal chair in its mourning trappings speaking eloquently of the departed Bishop. …