Short biographical notes and suggestions for intercessions for the days on which the Irish Church commemorates founders and ‘patrons’ of the dioceses of the country, missionaries who have gone from our shores, and men and women whose holiness has been an encouragement to others in their discipleship. Organised chronologically from January to December, forty-one celebrations are included with at least one for each diocese in the country. A list of suggested scripture readings is included as an appendix.George Otto Simms was elected Bishop of Cork, Cloyne and Ross in 1952, after a number of years as chaplain to Trinity College, Dublin, and the Church of Ireland Teacher Training College, where he assisted in the formation of a generation of clergy and primary school teachers. He became Archbishop of Dublin in 1956 and from 1970 to 1980 was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland. After his retirement in 1980 he lived in Dublin and continued a ministry of writing and lecturing until he died in 1991. Brian Mayne studied history at Queen’s University, Belfast, before training for ordination at Trinity College, Dublin. Ordained in 1957, he has served in parishes in the North and South. He was Dean of Waterford from 1980 to 1984. His present appointment as Rector of the Lecale Group of Parishes includes Down Cathedral and Saul, and he thus has care of an area which is often called the ‘cradle of Irish Christianity’. He has been a member of the Liturgical Advisory Committee since 1980 and its secretary from 1989 to 1999.
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