Monday 27 November 2017

Let Us Pray for the Dead 2016-2017

May He support us all day long, 
till the shades lengthen and the evening comes, 
and the busy world is hushed, 
and the fever of life is over,              
and our work is done.

Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, 
and a holy rest,
and peace at the last.   (John Henry Newman)

Saggart Cemetery (New Section)

Maura Browne
Wayne Keogh
Michael O'Dwyer
Christine O'Reilly
Christina Blackburn
Mary Dullaghan
Frances Whelan
Judy Lucey
Mary Drury
Bernie Callaghan
Eamonn Fitzgerald
Michaela Gonda
John O’Brien
Denis Kelly
Joan Mulvaney
Carmel McDermott
Rose McGlynn
Monica Hanlon
Charles Rudden
Maura Greaney
John Paul English
Eamonn Kenny
Elizabeth Erritty
Thomas Fairbanks
Brian O’Brien
Mary Gibbons
Marie O'Dwyer
Barry Lenihan
Joseph Rainsford
Thomas Moore
Susan Gibbons
James Murphy
Donald Hall
Esther Kenny
Kevin Shiji
Thomas Joyce
Jean Gordon
Eileen Ryan
Declan Slater
John Malone


New Cemetery, Newcastle

Joseph Sharry
Ernest Mooney
Ellen Fox
Patrick Farrell
Noel Mannix
Mary Rogers
Stephen Donnelly
Matthew Lee
Ann Kelly
Angela Burke
Una Healy
Imelda Nolan
Mary Condron
Mary Feely
May Hayes
Mai O’Reilly
James Kilgallon
Brenda Tier
Agnes Janssens
Robert Burke
Pauline Cullen
James Leonard

Louis Delahogue's Tribute to Fr Andrew Hart

Anno 1815
From the Epitaph of Fr Andrew Hart,  St Mary's, Saggart
           

                            

                          A Little Historic Moment


Two years ago, on Sunday 22 November 2015, the bicentenary was marked of the death of Fr Andrew Hart, P.P. of the ‘United Parishes of Saggart, Rathcoole and Newcastle Lyons’ (d. 20 November 1815, aged 30).  Since the Mass that morning happened to be a children’s Communion Preparation Mass, the talk delivered by Donal McMahon had to be adapted for a young audience, with the emphasis being put on the 'man on the wall' (see the report here). On Sunday 19th this year, the day before his anniversary, Fr Hart’s life was again recalled, this time for grown-ups. On this occasion the focus was the address (in Latin) given to the students in Maynooth the day after Fr Hart’s funeral by Louis Delahogue, the French-born Professor of Theology who had taught him there, had known him there later as Dean, and who had attended his funeral. This address was now heard for the first time in English more than two hundred years later in Fr Hart's own parish church, not far away from the site of his burial, a site distinguished, as we know, by a fine life-sized effigy.

          Andrew Hart and Louis Gilles Delahogue