ARDINAL NICHOLAS PATRICK, was born in the year 1802 in
Seville, Spain, of an Irish family settled there. His family returned to
Ireland, where he was educated. When he was sixteen he entered the
English College, Rome, and was ordained priest in 1825. In 1840 he was
appointed Coadjutor Bishop, and in 1850 the Pope named him Archbishop of
Westminster, and at the same time created him a Cardinal. He was a
profound scholar, an eloquent preacher, and a brilliant writer, and is
the author of many able works. He was one of the founders of the _Dublin
Review._ He died in 1865. His "Fabiola or the Church of the Catacombs,"
from which some selections have been taken for this Reader, is one of
the classics of our language. It was written in 1854.

WOODWORTH, SAMUEL, editor and poet, was born in Massachusetts in
1785, and died in 1842. With George P. Morris, he founded the _New York
Mirror._ "The Old Oaken Bucket" is the best known of his poems.

For sketches of other authors from whom selections are taken for this
book, see the Third and the Fourth Reader of the series.

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