Thaddeus M’Carthy was born in Kerry, where the M’Carthy More branch of the family resided, and where, in the monastery of Irialac (now Muckross), or in Ennisfallen (see _Archdall_), the princes of the house were always buried. The young Thaddeus went abroad at an early age, and embraced the monastic life. His virtues and piety soon attracted the notice of his religious brethren, as manifest from their chronicles. They became in time known to the ruling Pontiff, Innocent VIII., who raised him to the episcopal dignity. The B. Thaddeus repaired to Rome in the first place, to receive consecration and jurisdiction from the successor of St. Peter, imitating in this the example of our great patron saint. He stopped at Ivrea, probably on his way home, fell sick there, and died, God witnessing to His servant by signs and wonders. The silence of our annalists is thus accounted for to a great extent by the long residence of B. Thaddeus abroad. This theory is remarkably borne out by the independent notice in last _Record_. Having little to help us to arrive at any correct notion of the saintly bishop’s life beyond the epitaph and the slender tradition at Ivrea, we entirely subscribe to this view. Other sources of information may be opened, now that we have ventured to bring, for the first time, the name of B. Thaddeus before the Irish Catholic people; and for this service, little as it is, and entirely unworthy of our saintly bishop, we still expect his blessing in full measure. LITURGICAL QUESTIONS. We have received from various quarters several questions connected with the ceremony of marriage. We propose in this number of the _Record_ to answer some of them. We shall treat in the first place of the Mass. The questions forwarded to us may be reduced to the two following: 1. When and on what days can the Missa pro sponso et sponsa be said, and on what days is it forbidden by the Rubrics? 2. In either Mass are any commemorations to be made, and when and how are they to be made? In reply to these questions, we beg to bring under the notice of our readers the following decrees of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐