Rev Mark Connaughton OFM

Title:

Rev

First Name:

Mark

Middle Names:

Preferred Name:

Surname:

Connaughton

Order:

OFM

Date of Birth:

1892

Place of Birth:

Ballinasloe, Co Galway

Country of Birth:

Ireland

Date of Ordination:

1918

Place of Ordination:

Rome

Country of Ordination:

Italy

Ordination Diocese:

Seminary:

Date of Death:

30-Sep-1957

Place of Death:

Dublin, Co Dublin

Country of Death:

Ireland

Date of Burial:

03-Oct-1957

Place of Burial:

Glasnevin, Dublin

Country of Burial:

Ireland

Find A Grave URL:

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/284903408



Biographical Notes

Sydney, etc

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General Interest, Advocate, Melbourne, 15 November 1934, p 16, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article171901532:
Rev. Fr. Mark Connaughton, O.F.M., arrived from America on Friday last. He had been Novice Master in Ireland for six years. The last three years he has spent organising the retreat movement in New York, Boston, and Canada. He has a brother, who is also a Franciscan, doing missionary work in China. Fr. Mark will be attached to the retreat staff of "La Verna."

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Deaths, Irish Press, Dublin, 1 October 1957, p 11:
Connaughton (Clonmel) September 30, 1957, at a Dublin hospital. Rev. Father Mark Connaughton, O.F.M. Brother of Rev. Father Maurice Connaughton, O.F.M., San Francisco R.I.P. Remains will arrive at the Franciscan Church, Merchants' Quay, this (Tuesday) evening at 5.30 o'c. Funeral to the Franciscan Plot, Glasnevin Cemetery, after Office and Requiem Mass at 9.45 o'c, to-morrow (Wednesday) morning.

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Obituary, Irish Press, Dublin, 1 October 1957, p 3:
Rev. M. Connaughton, O.F.M.
Rev. Mark Connaughton, O.F.M., whose death has occurred in a Dublin hospital at the age of 65, was a native of Ballinasloe. He entered the Franciscan Order in Killarney in 1911 and was ordained in Rome in 1918.

From 1921 to 1927 he was Master of Novices at the Friary at Killarney. In 1927 he was appointed Guardian at Waterford. During his term as Guardian the present friary and church were completed.

On leaving Waterford he went to the U.S. on mission work, going later to Australia. He returned to Ireland in 1945 and spent some time in Waterford before being transferred to Clonmel.

Well known as a preacher and retreat master, Father Mark was also an outstanding administrator. His brother, Rev Maurice Connaughton, O.F.M., organised the Irish Franciscan Mission In China and was appointed Prefect Apostolic. He was expelled by the Communists in April, 1951.