Re: Re: Brother Michael Augustine O’Riordan

Bear in mind, dear Chuck, that O’Riordan’s churches were built at a time when Catholics did not have a lot of wealth, while the Church of Ireland was still the state church until disestablishment in 1870 and in receipt of considerable financial assistance! Given that, I wouldn’t be too hard on what O’Riordan managed to do with limited resources, nor on Praxiteles for wanting to catalogue what is part of our patrimony.