I assure you that, much as I may have differed from my uncle on points of doctrine, no one could have admired more than I did the beautiful simplicity, earnest religion, and faith of my uncle. For his God he renounced all the pleasures of the world; his death, sad as it is to us, was, as his life, apart from the world, but with God.
His family will respect his memory as much as I am sure you and the brethren of his order do.
I should be much obliged to you if you let me know the particulars of the last days of his life, and also where he is buried, as I should like to place them among family records at Althorp.
I venture to trouble you with these questions, as I suppose you will be able to furnish them better than anyone else.
Yours faithfully,
Spencer.
Thus in the end did Father Ignatius, in the simple pursuance of his duties, pierce through the prejudices of caste and tradition, harder to penetrate in England than elsewhere.
Mr. Monteith has erected a cross on the corner of the avenue where his saintly friend fell. It bears this inscription:
"On this spot the Hon. and Rev. GEORGE SPENCER,
in religion, Father Ignatius of St. Paul,
Passionist, while in the midst of his labors
for the salvation or souls, and the
restoration of his countrymen to the
unity of the faith, was suddenly
called by his heavenly Master
to his eternal home.
October 1st, 1864.
R. I. P."