Cemetery Sunday 2018: Jastine Valdez remembered

Cemetery Sunday 2018: Jastine Valdez remembered

Last Sunday, the regional director of the Columbans in Ireland, Fr Pat Raleigh marked Cemetery Sunday in Dalgan Park recalling all those Columbans “who journeyed with us” during the course of the Society’s 100 years of mission. Greeting up to 400 relatives of deceased...
Columban Centenary celebrated at Irish College in Rome

Columban Centenary celebrated at Irish College in Rome

The 100th anniversary of the foundation of the Missionary Society of St Columban was celebrated at the Pontifical Irish College in Rome on 18 May 2018. Columban founders, Fr Edward Galvin and Fr John Blowick, stayed at the Irish College in 1918 when they went to Rome...
Columban Centenary Altar Cloth’s Adventures in Fiji

Columban Centenary Altar Cloth’s Adventures in Fiji

Fr Donal McIlraith writes from Fiji about the recent visit of the Columban Centenary Altar Cloth and the various difficulties he and Lay Missionary Marjorie Engcoy encountered in bringing it to remote parishes, where it was warmly welcomed in thanksgiving for one...
Letters from an Irish Missionary in China

Letters from an Irish Missionary in China

The Missionary Society of St Columban and the Congregation of the Missionary Sisters of St Columban were born from the vision of two young priests whom Providence brought together in the years between 1916 and 1920. Edward Galvin, on loan to the Diocese of Brooklyn,...