Nurses Una Molloy, Alison Brooks (student), Trinity Enabulele (student), Olivia Leigh, Helen Bannon, Shirley Carney and Aideen Lawlor at Dublin Airport
getting ready to depart for Lourdes, where they will accompany sick pilgrims. Photos: John McElroy. The annual Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes departed on Thursday, September 4 from Dublin Airport with 109 sick pilgrims from parishes all across the Archdiocese. Archbishop Dermot Farrell led the five-day pilgrimage, accompanied by Bishop Donal Roche on his first time to Lourdes as an auxiliary bishop with the Dublin pilgrimage. The pilgrimage group included 109 sick pilgrims, 14 doctors, 50 nurses, 600 helpers and 30 priests. The 600 helpers included 250 young people with 150 of those being sixth year students from 30 secondary schools around the Archdiocese. More than 1,500 pilgrims are travelling on three chartered aircraft.
Archbishop Farrell stated that he thanks “all those who are joining in the pilgrimage who will devote themselves to the care of the sick and all those who are united with us in prayer throughout the Archdiocese.”
getting ready to depart for Lourdes, where they will accompany sick pilgrims. Photos: John McElroy.
Dublin Airport on September 4 before departing on the
annual Dublin Diocesan Pilgrimage to Lourdes