Celtic Connections

Celtic Connections - 05/20/2017 - Saints for the Journey


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Host: Kathy Sinnott and Kevin Turley with guest Fr. John Murray
Saints for the Journey – Inspiring Lives From Every Age, is a book about lesser known saints, blessed's and Catholics who lived lives of heroic virtue. Kevin Turley talks to author Fr. John Murray, parish priest of St Patrick's Downpatrick Northern Ireland, the resting place of Patrick, Ireland's patron saint, . Among the 'saints' profiled are; Blessed Fr. Giuseppe "Pino" Puglisi who stood up to the mafia in Palermo in Sicily, and was brutally assassinated in 1993 - Maria von Trapp of Sound of Music fame, "who sang her way into the Kingdom" - Architect Antoni Gaudi - and St. Paul Miki of the Japanese martyrs.
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