I used to use a different email address many years ago
so I was recently having a look over some forgotten messages.
I remember having many exchanges of info with Eugene MacBride
and I met him and wife Zelda many times - including a Sunday
walk around Galley Down ( approx 2005/6 ) !
Anyway he had obtained that film for the Pelicans which is called:
Seven Steps to the Altar
this was sent to Bernard Melling for 'extraction off tape' and conversion
to a format for the web. Bernard did a great job.
See also some stills on Gallery photo pages 222/223.
I happened to ask Eugene about the ordinations and he sent me the
following email: (08-Jul-2006)
Dear Robbie:
The ordinations took place at Jedburgh (Archbishop MacDonald) on 3 June 1949.
You can see John D. Conway and Pierce J. English being ordained to the diaconate.
I was at St Mary's Galashiels on 1 June 1950, a year later. when Bp Scanlan made
them priests. Conway sang a magnificent Veni Creator.
Ask me another.
Eugene.
The men who were shown being ordained in "Seven Steps" were the group who had been interned in France. My brother KEVIN WISEMAN was one of them.
Recently I had a very good meal with friends in ROSSINGTON HALL, which is a splendid hotel. A photo of these men with Fr. Howell, Provincial, is hung in the entrance Hall of the Hotel.
Dear Celia,
Many thanks for your message. Indeed, many thanks for your wonderful collection of photos
displayed at the Pelicans [Gallery] pages 157-160. I thought I knew 'nothing' about Rossington
Hall but know I see that Fr. Stan Lea was in charge of the move there from Autreppe in 1939
(see his obituary in obits page 13). I was at the Priory when he was Fr. Superior there in 1967.
Also Fr Tom O'Donnell was our Fr. Superior at St. Columba's in 1959/60. So there are many of us
who recall their amazing story. Your brother tells it well here at [Histories] on page 9.
Robbie.
