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Rev Patrick Carr OCarm

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Patrick

Middle Names:

Ignatius

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Carr

Order:

OCarm

Date of Birth:

Place of Birth:

Co Galway

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

07-Jul-1861

Place of Ordination:

Country of Ordination:

Ireland

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

11-May-1914

Place of Death:

Dublin

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

1914

Place of Burial:

Country of Burial:

Ireland

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Biographical Notes

Fr T.J. Linane, From Abel to Zundolovich, Vol. 2: Biographies of Priests on the Australian Scene up to 1900, 1980, p 24:

Carr, Patrick Ignatius, O.Carm., Irish, Golden Jubilarian
Carmelite Builder in South Australia

Every single Religious Order that had men in the Mission field in the last century has co-operated in furnishing details used in the 'Abel to Zundolovich' list. The main co-operator among the Carmelites has been Fr. Gordon Carter. To Gordon and other Carmelites we are indebted for this information on Fr. Patrick Ignatius Carr. A relative of Archbishop Thomas Carr, he was born in County Galway on 14 March 1834. Education would have been received at Knocktopher and other Carmelite training centres. Ordination took place on 7 July 1861. The first twenty years of missionary life were spent in Wales and the U.S.A. He arrived with the pioneer Carmelites at Gawler, South Australia, on 18 April 1881, and was destined to remain in that country Mission for 18 years. His time was spent in parish work and in the giving of Missions. He began the building of Sts. Peter and Paul Church at Gawler in 1897, the building of the Church of Our Lady of the Nativity at Hawley Bridge in the same year, and at Stockport. Whether the latter edifice was built by him or to his memory is uncertain. A reference states: "It stands as a monument to his work for the people of Stockport". He conducted Missions in West Australia in 1893. Recalled to Ireland on 28 August 1898, he appears to have left Gawler in 1899. The record of his remaining days of life in Ireland are unknown. He died on 11 May 1914 at the Knocktopher Convent, Dublin, having reached the four score of years and a Golden Jubilee.
(Footprints, Vol. 2, No. 2)
Ref.: MDHC File, Torquay per Frs. Adrian Jones & Gordon Carter of the Carmelite Order.