The Franciscan stand at the RDS Exhibition Hall, manned by friars and co-workers, was very popular with many of the thousands of visitors to the Eucharistic Congress paying a visit.
Cardinal Wifrid Napier, OFM, Archbishop of Durban, South Africa, is pictured with Sr Patrice, Abbess of the Poor Clare Monastery, Ballsbridge, Dublin.
Cardinal Napier, a Franciscan who did his novitiate in Killarney and went to Galway University, is one of 40 cardinals attending the Eucharistic Congress.
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