Thursday, March 28, 2024

National Celebration in Honour of St. Oliver

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When:
July 5, 2015 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
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Where:
Drogheda

The annual celebration will commence with the procession of a first class relic of St. Oliver from Holy Family Church, Ballsgrove (south of the river Boyne) at 3pm and proceed three kilometres to the National Shrine of St. Oliver in St. Peter’s Church, West St. where Holy Mass will be celebrated by Cardinal Seán Brady at 4pm. Keeping up a connection with Meath, the diocese of St. Oliver’s birth, the homily will be delivered by Fr. Philip Gaffney P.P. of St. Mary’s Parish, Drogheda.

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Pilgrim Knights from Hildesheim Diocese, Germany, carrying a Relic of St. Oliver at last year’s Procession in Drogheda.