Monday, 9 June 2025

An Almost Forgotten Shrine of Saint Columba

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  June 9 is the feast day of Saint Colum Cille/Columba of Iona, tertiary patron of Ireland. This year I  have decided to spare us yet anothe...
Monday, 17 March 2025

St Patrick: Who he was and how he was Honoured

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  To mark the feast of Saint Patrick, below is an 1894 article syndicated in the Australian press looking at our national patron and the way...
Saturday, 1 February 2025

'That Peerless Irishwoman: Mary of the Gael'

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    Last year to mark the feast of Saint Brigid I posted a 1929 account of a pilgrimage to the church of Killester, in Dublin, which had rec...
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Sunday, 9 June 2024

Prince, Poet, Priest and Saint

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Marking the feast of Saint Colum Cille with an article published 120 years ago in the Australian Catholic newspaper, The Southern Cross. The...
Sunday, 17 March 2024

Saint Patrick: His Prayers

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Marking the feast of Saint Patrick with a 1909 Australian newspaper account recalling the Moses tradition of Saint Patrick, who, like the le...
Thursday, 8 February 2024

Saint Brigid: Greatest of Irishwomen

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We conclude the series of posts in honour of the feast of Saint Brigid with an account from the Catholic Press in Sydney of the translation ...
Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Saint Brigid, Prototype of Religious Life

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  We continue the series of posts in honour of Saint Brigid with a late nineteenth-century article which reminds us that Saint Brigid was fi...