To conclude our pilgrimage to Cork City we made a unique and precious pilgrimage to the grave of Little Nellie of Holy God. This heroic young soul should be know to all but may not yet be known to you. If you don't know of her, you can find accounts of her life here, here and here.
Fr. Willie Doyle, S.J., visited her grave in 1911. His account can be found here.
Little Nellie should be better known, better loved, better honoured. Her memory, like her earthly remains, seems to suffer the same fate as Holy God abandoned in the tabernacle.
A Meditation on the Birth of Our Lord from Mother Mectilde of the Blessed
Sacrament
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I have had occasion in the past to highlight the treasures to be found in
the writings of Mother Mectilde de Bar (1614-98), whose works, though well
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