Sunday,
22 December 2024
The archbishop and the parish priest

By JOHN TAYLOR OAM, Myrtleford and District Historical Society Inc.

ON Wednesday, December 7, 1921, His Grace the Most Rev Dr Daniel Mannix, Archbishop of Melbourne, accompanied by the Bishop of Sandhurst, the Most Rev Dr John McCarthy, were greeted by an escort of horsemen and people in cars and horse-drawn vehicles at ‘Blue Bell Crossing’ four kilometres from Myrtleford.

The horses and vehicle...

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