[The example of Matt Talbot is mentioned in this homily.]
MASS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES OF THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
Homily Notes of
Most Rev. Diarmuid Martin
Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland
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Our Lady of Lourdes, Sean McDermot Street, 1st June 2011
“...You will have seen that this Church contains the remains of a remarkable saintly man of Dublin, Matt Talbot. He lived as an ordinary worker in the midst of the daily challenge of alcohol abuse and of harsh poverty and deprivation. He was a true mystic in his life but he witnessed not through writings but through an almost unnoticed humility in poverty. It is interesting that the only written text that we have from him is a donation: he scribbled his donation to a newly formed missionary society on a small piece of paper: ‘two pounds, from a poor man, Matt Talbot’...”
Source: The entire homily can be found at http://www.dublindiocese.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2458&Itemid=372