A warm welcome awaited us today in Strokestown, Co. Roscommon, the home place of the late Fr. Flanagan, our first Chaplain, today for a Traditional Latin Mass for the repose of his soul in the Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception, a towering beacon in stone standing guard over the town, on the feast of St. Lawrence of Brindisi. Our grateful thanks to the Priests and People of Strokestown for their many kindnesses.
Buildings of Ireland has a full description of the Church here.
The online Dictionary of Irish Architects has a note of the Church here.
Reports of previous pilgrimages can be found here (2013) and here (2014)
Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Evesham
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The Pilgrimage now heads west to the valley of the Avon and then the
Severn, making its first stop at Evesham. Here was the great Benedictine
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