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.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1931, Archbishop Edward J. Byrne of Dublin opened an inquiry into the claims of the holiness of Matt Talbot. The Vatican began an official inquiry in 1947, and Talbot was noted as "A Servant of ...

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.

Matt Talbot founder Mary Costello will be honored at a banquet Thursday night as Matt Talbot Kitchen's 2010 Compassion In Action Award-Individual.

Archbishop of Dublin John Charles McQuaid unveils a plaque honouring Matt Talbot. The bronze plaque was unveiled and blessed by Most Rev Dr John Charles McQuaid on a block of flats at Upper ...

Carpet king Des Kelly left a gross estate of more than €13m in his will which included charitable bequests to two Dublin homeless shelters and €71,425 for the canonisation of Matt Talbot.