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Talking about Portiuncula,
Br.
Seamus surprised me to learn that he and his brothers and sisters were born
in Portiuncula
Hospital in
Ballinasloe.
Seamus added that Ballinasloe is the largest TOWN in
Ireland.
History[edit]
The Franciscan Missionaries of the Divine Motherhood opened a nursing home at "Mount Pleasant" in 1943, and John Dignan, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Clonfert, invited them to found a hospital, which opened on 9 April 1945.[2] The nuns named their hospital after Portiuncula in Italy, the place where Franciscanism began.
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