569 - 23 March 1954

569

23 March 1954

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Letter from +McQuaid to +O’Hara stating that Ireland was solemnly consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus on Passion Sunday, 13 March 1873, a fact which is commemorated by exposition in all churches in Dublin each Passion Sunday, with a renewal of the consecration. On 15 March 1943, a resolution was passed by the Irish Bishops that every parish and diocese in Ireland was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

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