Posthumous Distinguished Alumni Award for Fr Kevin

Posthumous Distinguished Alumni Award for Fr Kevin

The Irish Ambassador to Korea, Michelle Winthrop, received on behalf of the late Columban Missionary Fr Kevin O’Rourke, the Distinguished Alumni Award from Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Fr Kevin O’Rourke is the first foreign national to receive this honour. It was...
From Tyburn to Peru

From Tyburn to Peru

Oxford Street in London is the busiest shopping thoroughfare in Britain and one of the most famous in the world. At the top of Oxford Street, by Marble Arch, you have to cross a traffic island, where most passers-by will have their eyes fixed on the pedestrian traffic...
Messenger of St Anthony Features Columban Martyrs

Messenger of St Anthony Features Columban Martyrs

The Messenger of St Anthony (English language edition) featured the seven Columban Martyrs who died in Korea in 1950 in the December 2025 edition. It also highlighted the tapestry ‘Woven into Memory’ which was commissioned by Jacqueline Creavan...
Warmi Huasi: Working on Behalf of Peru’s Children

Warmi Huasi: Working on Behalf of Peru’s Children

Warmi Huasi is quechua for “Women’s House” and is the name chosen for a small Civil Association founded in 2003 by Columbans Missionaries Fathers Ed O’Connell, John Hegerty and Bernie Lane and three lay professionals. By 2018 Warmi Huasi had become well established,...
‘Journey of the Magi’ read by Fr Kevin McHugh

‘Journey of the Magi’ read by Fr Kevin McHugh

‘Journey of the Magi’ is a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T.S. Eliot. The poem opens with a bleak, wintry landscape that mirrors the physical and spiritual hardship of the journey. It is written from the point of view of one of the magi, or wise men, who...