A commenter passes on this interesting snippet from the Latin Mass Society of Ireland.Bishop O'Reilly of Ardagh & Clonmacnois will the Latin Mass (Extraordinary Form) on Sunday, 23 September 2007 at St Mary's Church, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford as part of a commemoration of the Bicentenary of the death of Monsignor Henry Essex Edgeworth de Firmont.
Bishop O'Reilly of Ardagh & Clonmacnois to offer Latin Mass at Monsignor Edgeworth commemoration
Although born in Co. Longford, Mgr Edgeworth was the confessor of Louis XVI and Vicar General of Paris at the height of the French Revolution. There is an article summarising his extraordinarily eventful life in the Catholic Encyclopaedia: Henry Essex Edgeworth.
2 comments:
I never really understood why there was a bishop of clonmacnois...
ever been there?
it's spooky, loads of people wish to be buried there; and so the coffins get ferried down the shannon into the middle of nowhere where people come to 'see granny' and have their picnics on the tombstones...
The place feels haunted...and not just by the dead...
"I never really understood why there was a bishop of clonmacnois..."
He's Bishop of Ardagh AND Clonmacnois: this covers a couple of counties, not just the actual geographical location of Clonmacnois (which is a national monument btw and I think people have to have "family rights" to burial there - I don't think any new ones are allowed, at any rate).
But the news about the Mass is good. Unfortunately there has been a lot of silence about the MP in Ireland. There is nothing remotely like the series of diocesan statements/policies - good or not-so-good - that Fr. Z has been posting on his blog for some time now. The whole thing has rather been given the "looney aunt in the attic" treatment, if that's not too unchristian. They really DO seem to wish it would just go away.
I gather the situation is similar in the UK? jaykay.
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