VENERABLE OLIVER PLUNKET.

New Zealand Tablet, 5 August 1920, Page 18

VENERABLE OLIVER PLUNKET.

While the capital of the Catholic world on May 16 resounded with praises from the remotest ends of he earth and proclaimed Oliver Plunket “blessed ” the land of his birth thrilled with joy, and lovingly invoked his intercession. b J On that Sunday morning the martyred prelate’s ruined chapel at Ballybarrack, now rescued from oblivion by the piety of Sir Henry Bellingham, once moiG was the scene of the most sacred of Catholic rites, Within its crumbling walls Mass was once more celebrated after the long silence of . 240 years. The honor of celebrating it fell to the lot of a child of the parish. Very Rev. Andrew Macardle, S.J. A number of panshioners volunteered to get together a small choir to render suitable music during the Mass.