OBITUARIES

This page is dedicated to our deceased friends

Eternal rest give unto them O Lord and let perpetual life shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen

Tessa Gregory

Tessa died on 14th January, she had moved from Greenford about a year before to live in the country to help her health. Sadly we were notified of the funeral too late to attend. Tessa's mother was the late Norah Gates who died in 1997. It was her mother who introduced Tessa to Banneux and like her mother she left a donation to our sick fund in her will.

Frank Mullan

I wish to thank sincerely and gratefully thank Maria Hare for coming such a long way to attend my late husbands funeral in Edmunton.

We both go back a long way with Maria and Banneux, having been on seven pilgrimages over many years, and how Frank loved Banneux. We prayed at the "Little Chapel", the Blessing of the Sick, the stations of the Cross, the Rosary, the Holy Masses in the Mediatrix Chapel and asked the Virgin of the Poor to take care of our family, which she did.

We are blessed with nine healthy and good grandchildren, one being born perfect during the Blessing of the Sick in Banneux on 15^th August 1986.

I could go on thanking Our Lady so many graces received over the years and when my dear husband was dying and going to his heavenly home, I whispered all the invocations in his ear:

Blessed Virgin of the Poor

Lead him to Jesus Source of Grace

Mary Mullen

Note: Frank and Mary were on our committee for several years and helped us with our fund raising. Frank was in the KSC in his parish and they often sent us a donation.

Danny Maloney

Danny came to Banneux with us for quite a few years, he was one of eight children and over the years one or other of his brothers or sisters travelled with him to Banneux to help look after him.

The last coupe of years that he went he brought his eletric chair with him and was happy to be independent and ride around the shrine.

Several times throughout the years we thought he would not make it, even when he was nineteen but he always pulled through and kept going for another few years. Last summer after a long spell in hospital he died.

Everyone who went to Banneux in August loved Danny and will be sad to read this, but he is now at rest.

I will miss him, late at night, looking across the table he would say to me "I love you Maria" and I love you too, Danny.

Maria Hare

This page was last updated on 05/09/10 20:37:18 by Martin Smeaton.