Recollections by Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.
Recollections by an t-Athair Eláir OFM Cap. (Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.) of the re-internment of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in the cemetery of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork, in 1958. The notes were compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. The manuscript is incomplete.
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- 1981
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- Recollections by an t-Athair Eláir OFM Cap. (Fr. Hilary McDonagh OFM Cap.) of the re-internment of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap. in the cemetery of Rochestown Capuchin Friary, County Cork, in 1958. The notes were compiled by Fr. Nessan Shaw OFM Cap. The manuscript is incomplete.
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- Irish Capuchin Archives
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- Irish Capuchin Archives > Capuchin Papers relating to the Irish Revolution > Repatriation of the bodies of Fr. Albert Bibby OFM Cap. and Fr. Dominic O’Connor OFM Cap.
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- These words, long since favourites of mine kept going thro my mind as we stead on the Larmac waiting the return of the nortal remains of Lathan Albert and Lathin Dominic. The Gael…
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Aitheas an Athar Elair, Biocaire Provincesh. but one that is never the lens wind today Aitheas an Athar Elair, O.F. M. Cap (ina scribtum fem) ag rangh na "Aitheacha Aithe agus Dominic, Baile an Roistigh, MRitheanh 1958. Fuarthas in Athair Nearan, M. Fomhara 1981. POC These words, long since favourites of mine kept going thro my mind as we stead on the Larmac waiting the return of the nortal remains of Lathan Albert and Lathin Dominic. The Gael has a surpring going far into the misty frash but ra nevid one today. — Bas in Eckinn. It is not just a fair wish but an eager one — with a note almost of urgency — that desires for bas in Eckinn. Surely it is not only the wish of the Gael to die surrounded by kindly faces, made strong by the last rites of Mother Church but with the true Catholic reverence for the sanctity of the human body with a yearning to be buried in the seactified sod of Stely Ireland ania wisty the whistered travers of a good people, thriv many processions and manifestations of their Faith. And so not only "death is Ireland, but burial in Irish Ground. Was it that hunger of the Gael that mored those two humble friars to express reveal their lash wish of burial in Ireland. In life they had never sought anything. Being hoor they perceased not can give it stead; nothing wanted nothing but to do the
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2. with of their Superiors. They had made many sacrifices, angerously borne the heads of the day and the burdens thereof, they had served faithfully and well. None of our Prince friais in America or Africa have ever empressed such a wish but these two children of the Province did but forward a humble wish. The Province listen to their request, cherished that request and when the time was opportune and circumstances reminded the Latin of the Province, as it were commanded them, by Stoly Obedience to come home, and take their final restoring place with their deceased brothers in region in Rocheston cemetery. There is something here reminiscent of St. Francis injunction that the truly obedient friais should be like a lifeless body. So we have the acting Superior of the Province, surroundered by some of the brothers waiting to welcome home the two children who had made that last request. The first to speak the remainder on Irish ground was the acting Superior of the Province accompanied by some of the Prestbrew. Though official moved forward for with the intention that the
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