ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN NOVEMBER Saints celebrated on the 14th of November WELCOME! SAINT LAURENCE O'TOOLE, ARCHBISHOP OF DUBLIN, CONFESSOR Saint Laurence was youngest son to Maurice O’Toole, a rich and powerful prince in Leinster, whose ancestors for many ages had been princes of the territories of Hy-Murray, and Hy-Mal, in the vicinity of Dublin. [12th century] Laurence was but ten years old when his father delivered him up a hostage to Dermod Mac Murchad, king of Leinster. The barbarous king kept the child in a desert place, where he was treated with great inhumanity; till his father being informed that by such usage his son had fallen into a bad state of health, obliged the tyrant to put him into the hands of the pious bishop of Glendalough, by whom he was carefully instructed in the service of God, and at twelve years of age sent back to his father. HE THANKED THE GOOD BISHOP Maurice took Laurence with him, and went to thank the good bishop. At the...