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)
King Ludwig II of Bavaria
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140 years ago today, on the evening of June 13th 1886, the body of King
Ludwig II of Bavaria and that of one of his doctors were found floating
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