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DROMORE
Killingen, in the parish of Rohlingen, in the then ec-
clesiastical principality of EUwangen ; d. 19 Feb., 1853.
The parish priest of Rohlingen, an ex-Jesuit, noting
the boy's talents, instructed him in the elements of
Latin, and persuaded his parents to send him, in 1787,
in spite of their extreme poverty, to the gj-mnasium
of EUwangen. There he lived partly on the charity
of the townspeople and partly by tutoring, especially
m Latin, mathematics, and physics. He studied
theology, 1797-1799, at Augsburg; after 1799 he lived
in the diocesan seminary at Pfaffenhausen and was
ordained in the simimer of 1801. During his five
years as assistant in his native place. Drey studied the
then paramount philosophy of Kant, Fichte, and
Schelling, and the philosophical erudition which he
acquired in this study appears clearly in his scientific
works. His posi-
tion, from 180G,
as professor of
philosophy of
religion, mathe-
m a t i c s , and
physics in the
Catholic acad-
emy of Rott-
weil, formed a
good prepara-
tion for his sub-
sequent aca- c „ , „ T^
demical career. ^^ ColmaVs Church. Dromork
When in 1812 King Frederick I of Wiirtemberg
founded the LTniversity of EUwangen as a Catholic
national university for his recently acquiretl
Catholic territory, Drey was called to lecture there
on dogmatics, history of dogma, apologetics, and
introduction to theology. There he published
two Latin dissertations: "Observata qusdam ad
illustrandam Justini M. de regno millenario sen-
tentiam" (1814), and " Dissertatio historico-the-
ologica originem et vicissitudinem exoniologeseos
in ecclesia catholica ex documentis ecclesiasticis
illustrans" (1815), the latter of which was de-
nounced to Rome, but without serious conse-
quences for its author, at least for the time being.
When King William I (1817) incorporated the
University of EUwangen with the old national
University of Tubingen as its Catholic faculty of
theology, Drey with his colleagues, Gratz and
Herbst, joined the staff of the new school and
founded (1819), together with them and his new
colleague, Hirscher, the " Theologische Quartal-
schrift" of Tilbingen, still flourishing; he took a prom-
inent part in its publication and wrote for it a num-
ber of essays and reviews. In the same year he
published: " Kurze Einleitung in das Studium der
Theologie mit Rucksicht auf den wissenschaftlichen
Standpunkt und das katholische System ". An effort
to make Drey first bishop of the newly founded Dio-
cese of Rottenburg failed, among other reasons be-
cause of the distrust with which he was regarded in
Rome owing to his above-named work on confession.
Somewhat as a recompense the first position at the
cathedral was reserved for him, which, however, he
never filled. In 1832 appeared his "Neue Untersu-
chungen liber die Konstitutionen und Kanones der
Apo,stel", a work of such thoroughness that only re-
cent investigations, especially those of von Funk, have
gone beyond it. After convalescing from a severe ill-
ness, he was relieved from his office as teacher of dog»
matic theology (18.38). Ju.st then his principal work,
in throe volumes, appeared: "Die Apologetik als wis-
.scnscliaftliche Nachweisung der Gottlichkeit des
Cliristeiitums in seiner Erscheinung" (1838-1847).
Still comparatively robust, though well advanced in
years, Drey was iJCiisioncd in 1S4(). almost against his
will; he cuntinucil, however, to write for Wetzer and
Welte's " Kirchenlexikon" and for the "Theologische
Quartalschrift ' ' of Tubingen. With Mohler, Drey was
the founder of the so-called Catholic School of Tiibingen.
Like Mohler, Hefele, and von Funk, he was a truly
critical historian. But Drey also gave to the sys-
tematic theology of this school its peculiar stamp,
equi-distinct from Traditionalism and Rationalism,
recognizing on the one hand the objective facts in the
history of Revelation and the tradition from genera-
tion to generation, maintaining on the other the rights
of our natural reason and of philosophical specula-
tion, with all due loyalty to dogma. Kuhn and
Schanz faitlifuUy followed in the path marked out by
Drey.
Theologische Quartalschrift, XXXV (1S53), 340 sqq., LXXX (1898), IS sq.
JoHANN Baptist Sagmuller.
Dromore, Diocese of (Dromorensis, and in an- cient docmnents Drumorensis), one of the eight suffragans of Armagli, Ireland. It includes portions of the counties of Down, Armagh, and Antrim, and contains eighteen parishes, of which two, Newry and Clonallon, are mcnsal parishes. It takes its name from Dromore {Dru im Mor, great ridge), a small town in the north- west of Coimty Down, si-xty- three miles north of Dub- lin, twenty-five miles east of Armagh, and fourteen miles south-west of Belfast, which is I ■ u i 1 1 on the same river, the Lagan. The See of Dromore was founded in the sixth cent ury by St. Colman (called also Mo- cholmoc), one of themanyholy men (more than a hundred) bearing that name in the cal- endars of Irish saints. From a prophecy said to have been uttered by St. Patrick, sixty years before. Archbishop Healy (" Life and Writings of St. Patrick", p. 494) infers that St Patrick claimed no immediate spiritual jurisdiction over the territory of Iveagh which forms mainly the Diocese of Dromore, but willed that territory to be reserved for a bishop of the native race of Dal-Araide — namely, St. Colman, who founded hi.= see there about the year 514, some sixty years after St. Patrick founded the See of Armagh. Dromore has had its own independent jurisdiction ever since. The old cathedral of Dromore, which had been taken by the Protestants, was burnt down by the Irish insiu'gents in 1641, and rebuilt by Bishop Taylor twenty years later; but it has been far surpassed by the Catholic church recently erected. The seat of the cathedral, however, was transferred some two hun- dred years ago to Newry, the largest town of County Down, and a place of great historical interest, situated at the head of Carlingf ord Lough. In this town, when the severity of the Penal Laws began to relax, in the latter half of the eighteenth century, the Catholics built in a retired suburb a very plain church which is still in use; but just before Catholic Emancipation an edifice w-orthy of the name of cathedral was begun in 1825 and completed by Dr. Michael Blake (1833-1S60.1
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