A day at Mount Argus, Dublin, for a Provincial Council meeting. I will leave here at about 6.30 a.m. and be back at about 11.00 p.m. Oh, the joys of modern travel! Saint Paul of the Cross wrote that we were not to use a horse without necessity; unfortunately he didn’t mention planes.
Below are some pictures of the library at Mount Argus which I haven’t posted before. For the first thirty years or so, the present library was used as the Choir (or community chapel) of the monastery; then, in the late 1880s (as far as I remember) the larger Choir adjoining the Church was built. In the 1930s, when the transepts and present sanctuary of the Church were being added, it was discovered that the wall separating the Choir from the Church was of rubble rather than dressed stone; this was taken as an indication that the larger choir was already planned when the Church was being built in the late 1870s. Saint Charles (Houben), Blessed Bernard Mary Silvestrelli and the servant of God Father Ignatius Spencer all celebrated Mass in the original Choir which is now the library.
