Friday, 17 December 2010

Gibraltar mourns Bishop Devlin, 'the Irish Gibraltarian'

GIBRALTAR (Text & Image: GibChronicle) Bishop Emeritus Bernard Devlin died yesterday at the age of 89, at 6.15am, in the Clergy House at the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned. His body was taken to St Theresa’s Church at 12 noon by Monsignors Paul Bear and Charlie Azzopardi and other Clergy, escorted by two police riders. The body will now lie in state at St Theresa’s today and until tomorrow. From there it will be taken to the Cathedral of St Mary the Crowned where the funeral Mass will take place at 5pm. He will be buried in the crypt at the Cathedral. (See the full article on The Gibraltar Chronicle)

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