August 3, 1999
MEMORIAL MASS TO MARK FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF
OMAGH BOMBING IN NORTHERN IRELAND
A Memorial Mass will be held Saturday, August 14, 1999 for the victims of the 1998 Omagh, Northern Ireland bombing. Father Gerry Burns, the newly appointed Coordinator of the Irish Apostolate of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, will preside at the Mass. Father Burns just arrived from County Mayo, Ireland, on loan to the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
5:00 p.m.
St. Cyril of Alexandria Church
153 Penn Boulevard
East Lansdowne, PA
28 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in the August 15, 1998 car-bombing in the Northern Ireland town of Omagh, 70 miles west of Belfast. Six children were among the dead.
The Irish community of the Archdiocese will remember the victims and their families at the Memorial Mass, as well as to pray for peace in Ireland.
Editor's Note: Father Burns will be stationed at St. Cyril of Alexandria Parish, and also will work in cooperation with the recently opened Irish Immigrant Resource Center in Havertown, PA.
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John Miller
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215-587-3747