Father James, 74, Dies at Newark

NEWARK, Nov. 18--Rev. James J. Cullinane, O.S.B., 74 years old, teacher of mathematics at St. Benedict's Preparatory School forty years until ill health forced his retirement three years ago, died today in St. Michael's Hospital.

Father James was born in Elizabeth, son of the late Dominic and Ellen Haley Cullinane. He was educated in old St. Henry's School in Elizabeth and in St. Anselm College, at Manchester, N.H. He was professed to the Benedictine Order at St. Mary's Abbey, Newark, in 1895. He was ordained at Manchester June 29, 1899.

His first mass was offered in Sacred Heart Church, Elizabeth, July 2, 1899. For seven years Father James taught at St. Anselm's College. For a short time before he assumed his taching task at St. Benedict's, he was pastor of Sacred Heart Church, Wilmington, Delaware.

For several decades he assisted at Sunday masses in St. Bridget's Church, Newark. He also was associated with St. Peter's Orphanage, Newark.

Survivors are a brother, Jeremiah J. Cullinane, of Elizabeth, and two sisters, Sister M. Irene, O.S.B., stationed at Benedictine Mother House, Elizabeth, and Miss Katherine M. Cullinane, also of Elizabeth.

The priest's body will lie in state at St. Mary's Abbey from 1.30 p.m. tomorrow until 7.30 p.m. Sunday, when the divine office of the dead will be chanted in St. Mary's Abbey Church.