Come and Celebrate 400 years of Capuchin Service in Ireland with us! Heritage Conference this Weekend!

Come and Celebrate 400 years of Capuchin Service in Ireland with us! Heritage Conference this Weekend!

We can hardly believe it but we have reached the week of our celebration of 400 years of Capuchin Franciscan service in Ireland! Please come along to our day’s celebration in Church St on Saturday! Meet the brothers and hear our speakers on the amazing journey of the friars in their work as Brothers of…

1,200 Capuchins gather to celebrate Mass with Our Holy Father Pope Francis

1,200 Capuchins gather to celebrate Mass with Our Holy Father Pope Francis

On the occasion of the presence at St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome of the relics of our holy brothers St.’s Padre Pio and Leopold Mandic over 1,000 friars gathered with the Holy Father and at his invitation to venerate the relics and celebrate Holy Mass together. The two saints were chosen to come to Rome…

Capuchin Saints chosen as Symbols of the Year of Mercy: Relics of St.’s Padre Pio and Leopold Mandic brought to Rome.

Capuchin Saints chosen as Symbols of the Year of Mercy: Relics of St.’s Padre Pio and Leopold Mandic brought to Rome.

As part of the celebration of the Jubilee Year of Mercy, Pope Francis has called the relics of the bodies of two of our saintly brothers to Rome, St.’s Leopold Mandic and Padre Pio. The relics have been brought for the veneration of the faithful and as a reminder of the ministry of mercy we…