Please keep Bassant and Sid in your prayers during Lent as they prepare for Baptism at the Easter Vigil, also remembering JP who is preparing in his parish of Portree. All three will receive Baptism on Holy Saturday night at the Easter Vigil and are part of the RCIA programme of preparatio...
In 1889 the Braganza Chalice, dating to 1595, was found buried in St Fiorcheirn’s Holy well in Killoughternane, in county Carlow, the well having been reportedly filled in to protect it during Penal times (Ray 2014, p.62). At the site of the Beach Mass Rock (Plate 5), a small...