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Small School – Big Heart

by webmaster | Mar 22, 2008 | CAFOD, Organisations, Schools and Colleges

The children of St Gabriel’s have taken part in two fundraising events this year. The first of these was the ‘Walk Around The World’ sponsored walk held on 8th October. The rain poured but this did not dampen the children’s and staff’s...

The Founding of a Convent. Middlesbrough 1873-1876

by webmaster | Mar 22, 2008 | Diocese, Religious Communities

Like many of the nineteenth century female Religious Orders, The Society of the Faithful Companions of Jesus had their beginnings in France in 1820, when they were founded by a young French widow, Marie, Madeleine Victoire, Vicomtesse de Bonnault d’Houet to work for...

Bishop at St David’s Mass

by webmaster | Mar 22, 2008 | Schools and Colleges

A group of Davids from St David’s School, Middlesbrough, gather round Bishop Terry Drainey after a St David’s Day Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough. Member of staff David Cheshire, left, stands with a group of students with particular...

Mary Rose Crotty Bryan

by webmaster | Mar 21, 2008 | Obituaries

It is with feelings of profound sadness that we record the untimely death of Mary Crotty Bryan (age 52), of Kilrossanty, Co. Waterford and Thornaby. Mary passed away unexpectedly on the morning of Thursday 24th January in Waterford Regional Hospital. We can all take...

St Martin’s Ampleforth Parents vs St Peter’s Parents

by webmaster | Mar 21, 2008 | Schools and Colleges

The parents of St Martin’s Ampleforth School challenged the parents of St Peters, York to a rugby match here at St Martin’s Ampleforth, Gilling Castle on Sunday 9th March 2008. The match has been nicknamed ‘The Last Hurrah’ and was the idea of...

Ordination Joy

by webmaster | Mar 2, 2008 | Bishop Terry, Diocese, Miscellaneous

On Friday 25th January 2008 before a packed congregation at St Mary’s Cathedral, Middlesbrough The Right Reverend Monsignor Terence Patrick Drainey, was ordained and installed as seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough by Archbishop Patrick Kelly, Archbishop of...