Granby Lane

Images of Granby Lane, Dublin 1 where Matt Talbot died in 1925  and his memorial plaque. You can see the back of St .Saviour’s  in the background of the picture where he was headed for another Mass.

Statue and Photograph of Venerable Matt Talbot

James Power's statue of Venerable Matt Talbot in Dublin near Talbot Memorial Bridge, with the only known photograph of Matt inserted.

Venerable Matt Talbot Exhibit at the World Meeting of Families 2018

These photographs and texts were provided by Michael Murphy.  He and his wife, Noeleen are very active in promoting Venerable Matt Talbot in Ireland.

 

An exhibition stand (No. 136) was made in the exhibition hall showing the life of the Venerable Matt Talbot.
A reliquary with relics of Venerable Matt Talbot was exhibited.
Also things belonging to Venerable Matt were presented on the stand."

 

 "Looking forward to a great Day at the Matt Talbot stand 136 — with Noeleen Murphy at World Meeting of Families Meeting, Dublin."

 

"Gina Christian (right) from Catholic Philly.com, Philadelphia, visiting our stand with the "Matt Talbot Hope Book" which is to be presented at the Shrine of Matt Talbot; it consists of names of people struggling with addiction throughout the US and Europe."

A Venerable Matt Talbot Relic in Poland

Grzegorz Jakielski, a good friend and major promoter of Matt Talbot at https://www.facebook.com/VenerableMattTalbot/, has posted the following photo today of Father Zbigniew Kaniecki with a Matt Talbot`s relic - piece of coffin in which his body rested for exhumation in 1952.

 

                                        

 

August 2017 Photographs at the Shrine of Venerable Matt Talbot, Dublin

Since our post of Matt Talbot Shrine July photographs http://venerablematttalbotresourcecenter.blogspot.com/2017/08/updated-photographs-of-shrine-of_23.html, Grzegorz Jakielski has posted numerous photos at the Shrine by a different photographer at

https://www.facebook.com/VenerableMattTalbot/posts/1351379124984104 and 

http://mateusztalbot.pl/strony/dublin2017-1.html.

Below is a small sample:

 

Matt Talbot Wagon Club in Cleveland (1939)

 

"Clarence Snyder (who got sober in 1938, was sponsored by Dr. Bob, and started AA group #3 in Cleveland, Ohio) wrote in a letter to Ruth Hock (the first secretary of A.A.) on December 12, 1939, that the “Matt Talbot Wagon Club” now had 88 members and “is doing a wonderful job.” The “wagons” were used to collect old furniture, which members reconditioned and sold. As Clarence put it, they “had caught fire from the Liberty article and the Plain Dealer.” (See http://www.barefootsworld.net/aalibertymag1939.html)


“We are working closely with them. They have no benefit of hospitalization or home setup. All are transients, stumblebums, and social outcasts. There are nine of them working now. They are using our stuff and following much the same pattern in every way that it can be applied to their needs and setup.”


Source:  http://recoveryspeakers.com/december-1939-aa-history-matt-talbot-wagon-club/

 

Portrait of a Young Matt Talbot

Grzegorz Jakielski posted this portrait (and text) of Matt Talbot on his English Facebook page earlier today at 

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Talbot/304690079653019

“Some time ago I found the information on the web that in the Sanctuary of the Virgin Mary in the Różanystok has a painting of Venerable Matt Talbot. I went more than 250 km to find out about whether the information is true. The information proved to be true.

Unfortunately, the pastor had no information who is the artist of the painting or when it was hung in the Sanctuary.”

Note: Grzegorz’s Polish sites devoted to Venerable Matt Talbot are https://pl-pl.facebook.com/SlugaBozyMateuszTalbot
and http://www.mateusztalbot.pl 
Additional photographs of this painting of Matt Talbot in Różanystok can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.888360084619346.1073741837.304690079653019&type=3 and http://www.mateusztalbot.pl/strony/rozanystok.html

Pope John Paul II crowd waiting at Matt Talbot Shrine

This 1979 photograph and text is from the Dublin City Council Photographic Collection at http://www.dublincity.ie/image/libraries/030-our-lady-lourdes.

"Our Lady of Lourdes was built in 1954 and contains the shrine of Matt Talbot (1856-1925). This photo was taken during the visit of Pope John Paul II in September 1979. 

Pope John Paul II had voiced his support for the beatification of Matt Talbot and the locals were convinced that the Pontiff would visit the shrine. 

Despite many weeks preparation, the Papal cavalcade swept past the disappointed gathering. As one local put it: 'no joyrider even came down Sean McDermott Street so fast'."

Video of Matt Talbot Related Photographs

This 1:41 video of photographs (taken 29/8/15) are from Granby Lane (where Matt died) and his Shrine in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Dublin.

A Small Matt Talbot Shrine

                                                           

A priest is praying in the small Venerable Matt Talbot Shrine at the Franciscan Church on Merchants Quay in Dublin. (Photo by Ken Johnston)

Matt Talbot Image

Note:  This photograph was posted by Ken Johnston on 30 June 2015 at
https://www.facebook.com/ken.johnston.167/posts/1134472103236554

Enhancing Awareness of Venerable Matt Talbot in Lithuania

 

Our friend, Grzegorz Jakielski, is particularly passionate about spreading awareness of Venerable Matt Talbot not just in Poland but throughout the world.

 

Last week he went on a three-day journey to Lithuania where he visited and photographed many Lithuanian churches and left holy cards of Matt Talbot with the prayer for his beatification in each.

 

Fifteen of his photographs can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.724126834376006.1073741832.304690079653019&type=3.

Support for Venerable Matt Talbot in Poland

Grzegorz Jakielski, an active supporter of Venerable Matt Talbot in Poland, sent some photographs from the VII Meeting with Matt Talbot in Plock Trzepowo last week, which can be viewed at   http://mateusztalbot.pl/strony/7spotkanie-galeria.html or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Talbot/304690079653019

           

90th Anniversary Gathering at Granby Lane

Matt Talbot was on his way to Mass at St. Saviour’s Church, Dominick Street, Dublin on Trinity Sunday, 7 June 1925, when he collapsed and died of heart failure on Granby Lane.


Granby Lane then and now

Earlier today, there was a procession from St. Saviour’s Church to Granby Lane for laying of wreath, prayers, and blessing.

Note:  Additional photographs are available from https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10203040236087134&id=1842181797

Wooden sculpture of Venerable Matt Talbot

  

Grzegorz Jakielski, at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Matt-Talbot/304690079653019, has posted this photograph of a 2 ft. wooden sculpture of Matt Talbot. It was carved by the grandmother of a recovering alcoholic as a parish gift for a priest in Poland who is very interested in Matt Talbot.

 

Grzegorz has also posted 12 photographs taken at the tomb of Matt Talbot, Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Seán McDermott Street, Dublin, at https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.559750170813674.1073741826.304690079653019&type=1

 

 

 

Terry Nelson's 2014 Image of Venerable Matt Talbot

Terry Nelson unveiled his new image of Venerable Matt Talbot today at http://abbey-roads.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-little-art-exhibition-for-our-lady-of.html.

      Ven. Matt Talbot by Terry Nelson, 2014

Terry’s narrative about this painting is available at http://upyourstreet.blogspot.com/?zx=ff8dc82b4705d20e, a portion of which is reproduced here:

”In this painting I depict Matt around the age he died, he is holding a rosary indicating his devotion to Our Lady and the means of his overcoming addiction.  I relied upon the sculpture of Matt in Dublin and the only known photo of him to capture the likeness I produced in my painting.  In the background is a facsimile or impression of Newcomen  Bridge crossing the Royal Canal, at the moment when he decided to stop drinking at the age of 28.  On the other side - as if completing the bridge - which symbolizes conversion, we see the door of a church, within Matt being embraced by Christ.  This is suggestive of the doctrine of St. Catherine of Siena who understood the cross - or rather Christ Crucified - as the bridge between men and God.”

His increasingly popular 2009 image of Matt Talbot is below:

Our previous posts about and by Terry can be found at http://venerablematttalbotresourcecenter.blogspot.com/search?q=terry+nelson

A Reconstructed Composite Image of Matt Talbot

The top image of Matt Talbot is the frontispiece in the 1977 edition of Matt Talbot and His Times by Mary Purcell.  As she notes in pages 1-3, it is a reconstructed composite of different angle shots of the original (and only) photograph of Matt.

More about the original photograph can be found at  http://venerablematttalbotresourcecenter.blogspot.com/2010/11/photograph-of-matt-talbot-and-co.html