Fr Doyle wrote the following in his diary on this day in 1916: Since I became chaplain I have grown very lazy and unmortified, the cause of much unpleasantness and remorse to me. My excuse is that my present life is so hard and repugnant that I need these little indulgences. Then I think of Blessed Charles Spinola, for example, amid the horrors of his prison, practicing great austerities, fasting …