Black Friars march a ‘re-engagement’ with Waterford’s Catholic past

Black Friars march a ‘re-engagement’ with Waterford’s Catholic past Photo: Waterford and Lismore Diocese.

A centenary recreation of Waterford’s historic March of the Black Friars is an opportunity to “re-engage” with the city’s Catholic history rather than simply look back nostalgically, a local historian has said. The procession on August 16 will recall the 1926 march which drew around 5,000 people to mark 700 years since the arrival of…

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