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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

The following praise for Fr Doyle appeared in the Glasgow Weekly News on this day in 1917. It was written by a …

September 1, 2016

Tribute by Sergeant T. Flynn published in the Irish News on this day in 1917 We had the misfortune to lose our …

August 29, 2016

The following was written about Fr Doyle by Sir Percival Phillips, the famous war correspondent, and appeared in the Daily Express on …

August 22, 2016

During his time away from the trenches Fr Doyle often stayed in a convent in Locre. If my memory serves me correctly, …

August 21, 2016

On this day in 1917, 4 days after Fr Doyle’s death, Fr Frank Browne, the famous photographer and Jesuit military chaplain, wrote …

August 20, 2016

Fr William Doyle SJ 3 March 1873 – 16 August 1917 My Martyrdom for Mary’s Sake. Darling Mother Mary, in preparation for the …

August 16, 2016

The feast of the Assumption was an important feast for Fr Doyle. He made his religious vows on this feast in …

August 15, 2016

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, 2016

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, 2016

Fr Doyle, like all of us, had to struggle against his defects. We see an especially vivid example of his struggle in …

August 10, 2016