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Friar Maximilian Mary Martin elected Provincial Custos
The friars elected Friar Maximilian Martin as the new Provincial Custos of Great Britian and Ireland.
11/09/2022
NEW STATUE OF OUR SERAPHIC FATHER IN WEXFORD
The friary in Wexford has a new statue of Our Seraphic Father St. Francis...
31/12/2020
BRO. SOLANUS MARY IN THE LOCAL RADIO STATION
Bro. Solanus Mary has been doing a half-hour radio programme on the local radio station in Wexford, 'South East Radio', since June 2020...
10/12/2020
THE RENEWAL OF SIMPLE PROFESSION IN MANCHESTER & OXFORD
On Monday the 12th of October 2020, during the Evening Prayers, Fr Terence Bateman OFM Conv, has renewed his Simple Profession ...
12/10/2020
SOLEMN PROFESSION OF BRO. SOLANUS MARY SIMMS (B.A.P. CUSTODY)
Bro. Solanus was accepted for solemn vows in March this year and the ceremony took place there on 2nd August 2020 during Holy Mass...
02/08/2020
LIVE CHRISTMAS NATIVITY SCENE: WEXFORD FRIARY, 2019
This year the local Catholic Family Network (CFN), with the help of Fr. Robert OFM Conv. and the Wexford friars, Rev. Fr. James Cullen CC from the local parish and the Sisters of the Incarnate Word from Bunclody, decided to inaugurate a live Christmas Nativity scene...
16/12/2019
A visit from the Mother Province 1st-8th November 2019
For the first time, in the history of the Order of Friars Minor Conventual, the Custody of Blessed Agnellus of Pisa (Great Britain & Ireland) received a fraternal visit from the Definitory of the Mother Province (Our Lady of the Angels, USA)...
08/11/2019
Simple Profession in Oxford 2019
On Sunday 20th November 2019, our three novices made their first religious profession...
20/11/2019
Priestly Ordination of Friar Colin M. Edwards
In a joy filled celebration, Fr. Colin Mary Edwards OFM Conv. was Ordained to the Sacred Priesthood...
06/07/2019
Ordination of Friar Benedict Abugu
On Saturday, 27th of April 2019, the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday, before the worshipping community, family and friends, Friar Benedict Abugu was ordained to the Sacred Order of Priesthood...
27/04/2019
Investiture of Friar Terence
Fr. Terence Bateman was clothed with the habit and entered his Novitiate on 31st October, 2018...
31/10/2018
Custodial Retreat 24th-28th September, 2018
During the last week of September 2018, the friars of the Blessed Agnellus of Pisa Custody had their annual retreat...
28/09/2018
Admittance of Fr Terence to the Postulancy
The Conventual Franciscans of Great Britain and Ireland were delighted to welcome Fr. Terence Bateman and to admit him to the postulancy programme...
10/09/2018
Priestly Ordination of Friar Gerard Mary Toman
On the 6th July 2018 Fr. Gerard Mary Toman was Ordained to the Sacred Priesthood...
6/07/2018
The 150th Anniversary All Saints Church Barton
The 150th Anniversary of the Consecration and Opening of All Saints Church, Barton-upon-Irwell
(1868-2018)...
07/07/2018
Faculties Examinations 2018
Many congratulations to our Friars Gerard Mary and Benedict Abugu as they complete their years of philosophy and theology studies at Blackfriars Oxford...
30/06/2018
Diaconal Ordination of Friar Colin Mary
We give thanks to God for the ordination of Friar Colin Mary Edwards to the diaconate which took place on 24th March 2018, in the Church attached to the Blackfriars, Oxford...
24/03/2018
England: Pilgrimage to Walsingham
On March 19-20, 2018 several friars and postulants from the formation community in Oxford made a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in East Anglia, England...
20/03/2018
RECEPTION OF THE NEW POSTULANTS 2017
On 19th October 2017 we had the great joy of welcoming three men into our postulancy program...
19/10/2017
Great Britain & Ireland: The Second Part of the Chapter
On September 18-21, 2017, the friars of the Provincial Custody of Blessed Agnellus of Pisa in Great Britain and Ireland met at the Hayes Conference Centre at Alfreton, England...
22/09/2017
Great Britain-Ireland: Custodial Chapter
From September 4-8, 2017, the friars of the Provincial Custody of Blessed Agnellus of Pisa in Great Britain-Ireland held the first part of their Ordinary Custodial Chapter...
09/09/2017
Solemn Vows 2017
On 2nd August 2017, the feast of Our Lady of the Angels, Friar Joe Fenton, Friar Paul Francis becka, and Friar Colin Mary Edwards...
02/08/2017
Great Britain & Ireland: A Summer of Growth
In Great Britain and Ireland, our friars of Our Lady of the Angels’ Custody of Blessed Agnellus of Pisa are known as the Greyfriars...
01/09/2017
TWO GREYFRIARS ORDAINED TO THE DIACONATE
On 30th July 2017, five men were ordained to the Order of Deacons in the beautiful Church attached to the Priory of the Holy Spirit, Oxford...
30/07/2017
ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD 2017
On the Feast of the Annunciation, 25 March 2017, that day that our Blessed Lady first said YES to her vocation, two Greyfriars...
25/03/2017
FRIAR MAXIMILIAN MARY ORDAINED TO THE DEACONATE
On the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord, 6 August 2016, Friar Maximilian Mary Martin, OFM Conv. was ordained...
06/08/2016
FRIAR RORY DOYLE'S ORDINATION TO THE DEACONATE
On the Feast of the Visitation of our Lady, 31 May 2016, the parishioners of the Church of Our Lady of the Visitation in Dublin joined...
30/05/2016
FRIARS IN FORMATION RECEIVE THE MINISTRY OF ACOLYTE
On the Feast of the Presentation, 2nd February, the Very Reverend Peter Damian Massengill, OFM Conv, ...
10/05/2016
FR. PETER DAMIAN'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD
On the Feast of the Ascension of the Lord, friars from Oxford, Manchester, Malta, and the United States of America gathered together...
10/08/2016