Monsignor Patrick J McManus’ Month’s Memory Mass will take place on Saturday 7th March at noon in St Patrick’s Church, Kilnaleck

Monsignor Patrick J McManus 1921-2020

Born in the townland of Greaghnagee (Parish of Lavey), Monsignor McManus was ordained in Maynooth on 22nd June 1947. Having ministered in Ireland and England for almost thirty years, he became Vicar General of Kilmore Diocese in 1976. He celebrated seventy years of church ministry in 2017 and almost forty of those years were spent in Crosserlough Parish. Monsignor McManus passed away on Sunday 2nd February 2020. He was in his 98th year. His funeral Mass was celebrated in St Mary’s Church, Crosserlough on Wednesday 5th February. He was laid to rest at St Patrick’s Church, Kilnaleck. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam.