by webmaster | Nov 7, 2008 | Religious Communities, Bishop Terry
On 23rd October, Bishop Terence Drainey of Middlesbrough blessed a new chapel at More House, the Catholic Chaplaincy building in the York suburb of Heslington. More House is a Grade II listed building that was once the Anglican vicarage. It was purchased as a...
by webmaster | Oct 28, 2008 | Schools and Colleges, Religious Communities
Sr Christina, Daughter of Charity of St Vincent de Paul, died on 10th August 2008. She was 94 years old. Sister was previously called Sr Apolline and was Headteacher at St Mary’s Infant School, Grangetown from September 1956 to December 1978. She worked in the...
by webmaster | Oct 5, 2008 | Religious Communities
Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, Venerable Catherine McAuley, is already a saint in the eyes of her vast Mercy Family of Sisters and Associates: The Church has already taken the first step in the official process. Catherine McAuley’s cause for Beatification...
by webmaster | Sep 14, 2008 | Event Calendar, Religious Communities
Foundress of the Sisters of Mercy, Venerable Catherine McAuley, is already a saint in the eyes of her vast Mercy Family of Sisters and Associates: The Church has already taken the first step in the official process. Catherine McAuley’s cause for Beatification...
by webmaster | Aug 28, 2008 | Event Calendar, Diocese, Obituaries, Parishes, Religious Communities
On Monday 25 August 2008 at 2.35 am in the Convent of St Joseph, Whitby Father Peter Coleman returned to the Lord. May he rest in peace. Fr Peter, the sixth of Dolly and John Coleman’s eight children (five boys and three girls) was born on 16 June 1938, the...
by webmaster | Aug 2, 2008 | Obituaries, Parishes, Religious Communities
Fr Charles Macauley, a monk of Ampleforth Abbey who retired from his last post as parish priest only two months ago, has died at the age of 76. Fr Charles had been parish priest of St John, Easingwold, since 1996 but had to step down from that role due to ill health...