THREE WORKS COMMEMORATING THE LIFE OF MATT TALBOT

These paintings are by Flora H. Mitchell, 1890-1993, and this text is from Whyte's at http://www.whytes.ie/ImageDisplay.asp?Auction=20070917&offset=140&IMAGE=142)

"The Venerable Matt Talbot (1856-1925) was a working class Dubliner who renounced alcohol and led an exemplary life of piety and clarity. He died on the way to Sunday Mass and was initially buried in a pauper's grave. In 1952 his remains were exhumed and transferred to a double vault, depicted here. He was beatified by Pope Paul VI.
Individual titles are No. 18 Rutland St, Dublin, where Matt Talbot resided (exterior of building), Vault, Glasnevin Cemetery, and No. 18 Upper Rutland St., Dublin (interior)"

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