1. Daniel Patrick Mannix was an Irish-born Australian Catholic bishop.
27 Facts About Daniel Mannix
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Daniel Mannix was involved in the controversy surrounding the dismissal of Father Michael O'Hickey as Professor of Irish after O'Hickey publicly attacked those members of the senate of the National University of Ireland who opposed making Irish a compulsory subject for matriculation and insinuated that the senators had sinned grievously by so doing and resembled those MPs who were bribed to pass the Act of Union.
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On 1 July 1912, Daniel Mannix was consecrated titular bishop of Pharsalia and coadjutor bishop to Archbishop Carr of Melbourne at Maynooth College Chapel.
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Daniel Mannix was regarded with suspicion from the start and his militant advocacy on behalf of a separate Roman Catholic school system, in defiance of the general acceptance of a secular school system, made him immediately a figure of controversy.
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In 1914 Australia entered World War I on the side of the United Kingdom and when Daniel Mannix denounced the war as "just a sordid trade war", he was widely denounced as a traitor.
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Daniel Mannix spoke out more frequently about the 1917 referendum, which was defeated.
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The extent to which Daniel Mannix influenced the outcome of the vote has been debated widely.
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In 1917, when Carr died, Daniel Mannix became Archbishop of Melbourne.
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Daniel Mannix opposed the Easter Rising in 1916 and always condemned the use of force by Irish nationalists.
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Daniel Mannix counselled Australians of Irish Catholic extraction to stay out of Irish politics.
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Daniel Mannix became increasingly radicalised and in October 1920 led an Irish republican funeral cortege through the streets of London following the death of the hunger striker Terence MacSwiney, the Lord Mayor of Cork City in Mannix's native county.
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Daniel Mannix was involved in the production of the film Ireland Will Be Free.
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In 1920, Daniel Mannix travelled from Melbourne to San Francisco and then by train he journeyed to New York in order to take passage on the White Star Line ship the RMS Baltic to Ireland.
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However shortly before the RMS Baltic was due to arrive in Cork Harbour, it was stopped and boarded by British military, who arrested Daniel Mannix and transferred him directly to England.
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Daniel Mannix had spoken against the Treaty of Versailles, saying it would lead to a greater war than the one just ended.
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Daniel Mannix formed the Irish Relief Fund, which provided financial support for the families of those shot or imprisoned by the British.
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In Melbourne, Daniel Mannix was the leader of the city's largest ethnic minority as well as a religious leader.
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Daniel Mannix was a strong supporter of Joseph Lyons, who left the Labor Party in 1931 and led the conservative United Australia Party in government from 1932 until 1939, although he continued to support Catholics in the Labor Party such as Arthur Calwell.
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Mannix's best-known protege in his later years was B A Santamaria, a young Italian-Australian lawyer, whom Mannix appointed head of the national secretariat of Catholic Action in 1937.
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Daniel Mannix covertly supported the DLP and allowed many priests and religious to work openly for it.
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Daniel Mannix described the policy as "crude" and said that Australia had much to learn from other races.
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Daniel Mannix continued his friendship with long-time Irish leader Eamon de Valera, with the two men continuing their correspondence when Mannix was aged 98 years.
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Some figures in the DLP supported this idea, but Daniel Mannix supported Santamaria in his resistance to such suggestions.
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Daniel Mannix, who turned 90 in 1954, remained active and in full authority, but he was no longer a central figure in the city's politics.
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Daniel Mannix died suddenly on 7 November 1963, aged 99, while the archdiocese was preparing to celebrate his 100th birthday.
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Daniel Mannix was buried in the crypt of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne.
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In recognition of his influence across both church and state, the Catholic Church commissioned a statue of Daniel Mannix which is located in the forecourt of St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne, facing Parliament House.