Archbishop Martin: Treasure the Testimony of Fr Monaghan

Archbishop Martin: Treasure the Testimony of Fr Monaghan

On Sunday 31st August 2025, during a Memorial Mass for the four Columban Missionaries martyred 80 years ago in Manila, Philippines, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh and Dromore delivered the following homily in St Patrick’s Church, Banbridge, Co Down. Brothers and...
More Coverage of Columban Martyrs in WWII

More Coverage of Columban Martyrs in WWII

Both the Offaly Independent and the Tuam Herald have given extensive coverage of the Columban Martyrs in recent issues. The Offaly Independent has focused on Fr Patrick Kelly from William Street in Tullamore including a piece by Mairéad O’Brien on Fr Patrick Kelly’s...
Fr John Marley

Fr John Marley

Fr John Marley was born in Belfast on 11th January 1927. He was educated at St Patrick’s PES, St Comgall’s PES and St Malachy’s College, Belfast. He came to St Columban’s, Navan in September 1944 and was ordained priest on 21st December 1950. John’s first...
Manila’s ‘Beacon of Hope’

Manila’s ‘Beacon of Hope’

Fr John Boles speaks to Lydio Mangao Jr about how Columban seminarians are bringing hope to one of Manila’s most notorious slums. “This’ll be a real eye-opener”, Lydio told me, and he wasn’t joking. Lydio Mangao Jr is a Columban seminarian from the Philippines. He...