PENANCE IN SECRET.
STORY OF IRISH LABOURER. DEATH REVEALS STRANGE FACTS LONDON, March 2G. A story of years of secret penance has been revealed by the death of a Dublin labourer, Matthew Talbot, aged 68, who dropped dead in Waling Church. It was discovered that deceased wore a heavy chain around his waist, a lighter chain on one arm, and a cord of St. Francis around the other. He had worn the chains for 14 years, slept on a plank bed, and observed fasts and mortification as rigorous as those undergone by the early saints. The man had lived alone for 48 years in a single room, which cost him 2s 3d a week. He prayed from 2 everv morning, and attended the earliest Mass. His co-religionists are hoping that the Roman Catholic Church will recognise liiin as "The Saint of the Slums.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 9
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143PENANCE IN SECRET. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19291, 1 April 1926, Page 9
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