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The Father Willie Doyle Association

Father Willie Doyle Association

Official site for the canonisation cause of the Servant of God Fr Willie Doyle SJ

WWI

Posts dealing with WWI

Fr Doyle’s last written words I have told you all my escapes, dearest Father, because I think what I have written will give …

August 14, 2017

Today we have the last of Fr Doyle’s narratives from his letters home to his father in August 1917, less than a …

August 11, 2017

Ecce Home: Behold the Man We return today to Fr Doyle’s narrative, and get some glimpse of the horror of war, and …

August 10, 2017

Continuing our narrative today, it is hard not to be struck by the extraordinary good humour of Fr Doyle. The “cathedral” to …

August 8, 2017

Today’s account, from 7 August 1917, gives us some small insight into the horrors of the war, especially when it involved the …

August 7, 2017

The events of August 6 1917 in Fr Doyle’s own words. In particular today we note Fr Doyle’s devotion to the Mass. …

August 6, 2017

We once again resume Fr Doyle’s narrative of the events at the Battle of Passchendaele. This is his account of the events …

August 5, 2017

We have no more reports from Fr Doyle until August 5th, and we shall take up his narrative once again on that …

August 2, 2017

We continue today with Fr Doyle’s narrative of events in the days leading up to his death. Today’s account is somewhat shorter …

August 1, 2017

Carole Hope, the author of Worshipper and Worshipped, was at the Tyne Cot memorial today and left a floral tribute there to …

July 31, 2017