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Remembering tales of apparitions of the Virgin Mary in Ireland on the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception.Â
Today, December 8, marks the Feast Day of the Immaculate Conception in the Catholic Church. The meaning given behind the religious day of obligation, according to the teaching of the Catholic Church, is that this day marked the conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary in the womb of her mother, Saint Anne, free from original sin by virtue of the foreseen merits of her son Jesus Christ.
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In Ireland until quite recently, December 8 was a major feast day and all schools would close. It was also traditionally when people would start their Christmas shopping and towns and cities began to bustle with the feeling of festivities in the air.
Jimmy Shiels calls time on his driving instructing
13 Dec 2020
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Jimmy Shiels spent three six months trips overseas when a member of the Irish Army. He served in South Lebanon, Rwanda and Sierra at a time when these countries were immersed in war and bodies lay strewn on the ground as if they were wildlife.
Did it frighten the man born in Ralish Abbeyleix? He says no. At the time it was regarded as a day’s work. After he retired Jimmy founded a school of motoring named after his towns land which he describes as the most beautiful place any one could live and the neighbours “simply the best.”