The man was eventually identified as Matt Talbot. Born in 1856 into a large Catholic family living in semi-poverty in Dublin, Talbot left school, barely literate, aged just 11 years old, going to ...

Matt Talbot was born in Dublin on May 2, 1856, and died suddenly on June 7, 1925. He was declared Venerable by Pope Paul VI in October 1975, the first step on the journey to sainthood.

A statue of Matt Talbot at Matt Talbot Bridge in Dublin with Dublin’s financial district in the background. Credit: Cograng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

Venerable Matt Talbot spent the first 30 years of his life as one of these poor invisibles, mired in his own brokenness. He lived in the shadows of Dublin at the turn of the 20th century.

A statue of Matt Talbot at Matt Talbot Bridge in Dublin with Dublin’s financial district in the background. Credit: Cograng, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons ...

This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM Bishop of Galway Michael Duignan is to lead tomorrow evening’s Matt Talbot commemoration at Galway Cathedral The programme of mass and veneration of relics ...

Born on 2 May 1856, Matt Talbot grew up in the famine poor, hungry tenements of north inner city Dublin.

On Trinity Sunday, 1925, Matt Talbot fell dead in Granby Lane, Dublin, in the 70th year of his life. His emaciated body was uncovered. Around it, imbedded in his flesh, was a rusty cart chain.