School: Arklow Convent
- Location:
- Arklow, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Sr. Brendan
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- Collector
- Evelyn Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveduff, Co. Wicklow
- In a certain parish there was a man who would not go to Mass for anyone although he was a Catholic. The priest of the parish came to him many times but it was all no use. One Sunday evening the priest came again and asked the man if he were at Mass that day. The man said that he was. The priest said "What priest said Mass"? The man named one of the priests. He had not been to mass and so named the wrong one.
The priest said nothing. The man tried to get up from the seat he was sitting on but found that he could not stir. He(continues on next page)