Rev John of the Cross Cogan OCarm
Title:
Rev
First Name:
James
Middle Names:
Preferred Name:
John of the Cross
Surname:
Cogan
Order:
OCarm
Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:
Baltinglass, Co Wicklow
Country of Birth:
Ireland
Date of Ordination:
Place of Ordination:
Country of Ordination:
Ordination Diocese:
Seminary:
Appointments Table
Diocese | Place | Role | Start Day | Start Month | Start Year | End Day | End Month | End Year | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adelaide | Gawler | 1900 | 1902 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Adelaide | Port Adelaide | 1902 | Linane Vol 2 | ||||||
| Melbourne | Port Melbourne | 1903 | 1904 | Linane Vol 2 | |||||
| Adelaide | Port Adelaide/Alberton | 1909 | Linane Vol 2 |
Biographical Notes
Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 58:
Cogan, James John of the Cross, Very Rev., O.Carm., Irish
Patriot, Writer, And Carmelite Provincial
The author of 'Hands Across the Sea' and 'Young Ireland, Hearts and Hands' deserves a book written about himself. For Cogan is certainly one of the outstanding Carmelites who came to their house in Gawler, S.A., and Port Melbourne. Born at Baltinglass in County Wicklow on 9 July 1873 he completed his studies at the Royal University, Ireland, and at Rome. He had received profession at Terenure College in 1893 and been ordained on 13 August 1899. He had left Ireland on 10 September 1900 and so arrived within the period (end of 1900) to be a part of this A to Z list. He was with the Gawler community when it transferred to Port Adelaide in February 1902. Directories give the Port Melbourne placing in 1903 and 1904, and returning to Adelaide he played no small part in the building of churches at Port Adelaide and Alberton. The church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was built in 1907 at Alberton - and a new school followed in 1908. With a strong sense of Irish patriotism, he worked hard among Irish migrants and their descendants to unite them in loyalty to Faith and former Fatherland. That was the theme of his book 'Hands Across the Sea'. He was recalled to Ireland in 1909, and at the Irish Provincial Chapter of that year was elected Prior at Terenure. Bigger responsibilities were to follow: Irish Provincial 1913-1925, in charge of Rathgar House of Studies set up in 1922, Prior at Whitefriar St., Dublin, as from 1925, Provincial from 1934-1939. For a part of the period 1925-1934 he was in England, being made responsible for opening a new house at Sittingbourne, Kent. It will be noted that the opening sentence in this biography gives credit for the writing of two books. Actually it is one and the same book - 'Young Ireland, Hearts and Hands' being a second title to the first. The writer, patriot, and leader of his community died on 25 September 1941 at the age of 68. At his Requiem and at the graveside in Glasnevin were to be seen many moist eyes, among them those of Eamon De Valera and several of his Ministers of State.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 7)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay, per Liam Byrne, Dublin, & Fr. Gordon Carter O.Carm.