Forristal, Desmond.

The Second Burial of Bishop Shanahan.

Dublin, Veritas Publications, 1990. 21cm x 13.7cm. 329 (5) pages. Original illustrated softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear and some signs of foxing. Pastedown signed by preowner.

Includes for example the following chapters: Father Gaboon. Schools/ The Great Trek/ Gods and Demons/ Bishop Shanahan/ The ladies from Ireland/ Choosing a successor/ Looking to the future/ Retirement/ Magnificat/ Christmas in Onitsha/ Banishment/ The last safari/ Second Burial etc.

The second burial of Bishop Shanahan took place in 1956. Amid great public rejoicing, his remains were brought back to the land where he had laboured for thirty years. In this second burial, twelve years after his death, he was being given the honour denied to him during his lifetime. Joseph Shanahan was born in Co. Tipperary in 1871, the son of a poor farm labourer. He joined the Holy Ghost Congregation, studied in France, and returned to Ireland to be ordained priest in 1900. Two years later he was sent as a missionary to Southern Nigeria and he remained there, first as a priest and then as a bishop, until 1932. He was a truly charismatic figure, a man of exceptional courage and vision. He travelled the country on foot, by bicycle and canoe. He walked boldly into villages where no white person had set foot before. He saw the importance of education and built up a huge network of schools which formed the foundation of one of the most flourishing missionary churches in the world. He founded the Holy Rosay Congregation, a missionary sisterhod which has spread throughout the world. He was the inspiration behind the setting up of the Kiltegan Fathers, the Medical Missionaries of Mary, and two Nigerian sisterhoods. After his death he wsa acclaimed as the leader and father of the great Irish missionary movement that marked the first half of the twentieth century.

• Keywords: Catalogue Irish History Six – General Irish History · Irish History · Irish Religion & Church History · Irish Religious History
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853901954
• Inventory Number: 41754AB

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