Archive for March, 2003
Brother Douglas Downes
It was in the late summer of 1923 that I first met Brother Douglas. He had recently taken charge of the little Franciscan community of volunteers and vagrant ‘wayfarers’ travelling the country in search of work. He was wearing a boiler suit with a red cross on the breast pocket. There was no unemployment benefit [...]
Posted: March 4th, 2003 under History.
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