Fifty
years to the minute from the start of the Ceremony of Solemn Opening of the Church
of Saint Peter in Chains, a commemorative mass began in the church. At 12 o’clock
midday on Sunday 2 October 1988, the Bishop of Galloway, Maurice Taylor and other
priests celebrated mass.
Clergy participating were:
Father Patrick Burns, Verona Father, Ardrossan
Father
Antonio Colombo, Verona Father, Ardrossan
Father
Michael Lynch, Parish Priest of the Church of Saint Peter in Chains
Father
Charles Matthews, formerly of the Church of Saint Peter in Chains
Canon
Nicholas Murphy (1919-92), Church
of Our Lady, Star of the Sea, Saltcoats
Father
Paul O’Brien, Church of Saint Peter in Chains
Bishop
Maurice Taylor, Bishop of Galloway who was the principal celebrant
Canon
John Walls, formerly of the Church of Saint Peter in Chains
The
altar servers included:
Colin Harvey
Bernard McCormick
Chris McEvoy
Harry Sammons
Joseph
Sammons
Liam Timpany
Members
of the choir were:
Josephine Brown
Anne Bull
John Cosgrove (1920-1996) who conducted the choir
Jim
Donnelly
Moira Donnelly
Margaret Harvey
Richard
Harvey
Jimmy Love
Janet Procter
Felix
Quigg (-1994)
Robin Reid who played the organ
Mary
Sammons
Margaret Swiercz
Monica Taylor
Members
of the congregation included:
John Anderson
Billy
Andrew
Celia Andrew
Claire Andrew
Craig
Andrew
Graham Andrew
Julie Andrew later Julie
Coldwell
Stuart Andrew
David Atkins
Josephine
Atkins
Tommy Atkins who was a passkeeper
John
later Father Boyce
Sheila Boyle who was a Eucharistic Minister
Willie Breslin
Benet Brodie
Donald
Brown
Isa
Brown
Mary Brown
Peg Brown neé Welsh (1913-1991)
John Byers (1924-1991)
Bernard Carlin
Mary
Carlin
Albert Carrino
Jim Carroll
Moira
Connor
Frank Coulter senior
Frank Coulter
Gerry Coulter
James Coulter
Josephine
Coulter
Sheila Coulter
Donald Cullinane
Tony
Da Prato
Mary Dalziel
Bessie Delahunt (1934-2006)
Jim Delahunt
Anne Duncan
Alison Dunn
(1974-1994)
Kate Dunn
Maggie Edmond (1892-1996)
who, aged 95 years, was the oldest parishioner
Alison Erskine
Terry Erskine
Robert Ferguson (-2005)
Chrissie
Ferguson
Carol Gee
David Gee
Douglas
Gee
Bert Gilmour
James Grant
Charlie
Gribben (1927-2002)
Marade Griffin
Christopher
Harvey
Edward Harvey
Margaret Harvey
Michelle
Harvey
Richard Harvey
Jessie Hazelton neé
McMahon (1925-2007)
Christopher Hendry
Colin Hendry
Jamesina Hendry
John Hendry
George
Hilferty
Maria Hilferty
Addie
Hissey neé McCabe (1907-2009)
Audrey Hunter
Danuta
Hunter
Jason Hunter
John Hunter
Frank
Kelly
Margaret Kelly
Larry Kernahan
Agnes
Long neé McQuade (1923-2006)
Denis Long (1921-2005)
Lisa Mack
Mary Mathieson
Jimmy McAloon
Mary McCabe
Andrew McCarroll (1927-1996)
Marie
McCormick
Marion McDermott
Matt McDonald who was
a Eucharistic Minister
Catherine McEvoy
Kathleen
McEvoy
Pamela McEvoy who was a reader
Anne McEwan
Jim McEwan
Henrietta McGonigle
Joe
McGoogan
Alice McGrattan
Anne McGrattan
Anne
McGrattan
George McGrattan
Stephen
later Father McGrattan
Tom McGrattan
Kenny
McGuire
Theresa McGuire
Ennis McHugh
James
McLaughlin (1919-2009)
Winnie McLaughlin
Andrea
Mealey
Angela Mealey
Brenda Miller
Bill
Mitchell who was a reader
Charlotte Mitchell
John
Mitchell
Gerry Monan (1940-1995)
Margaret Monan
Kathleen Moran
Terry Morgan
David
Munn
Margaret Munn
Jimmy Murphy
Jean
Murray
Michael Murray
Patricia Murray
Jimmy
O’Neill
Julia Paterson
June Piacentini
Ralph Piacentini
Esther Quigg
Margaret
Quigg
Pat Quigg
Lindsey Reid
Maria
Reid
Robert Reid
Seamus Reilly
Myriame
Sammons
Catherine Scullion
Jimmy Scullion
Sister Mary Annunciata (1916-2008)
Sister Clement
Sister Elizabeth
Sister Pius
Sister
Vincent
Margaret Spencer (1913-1992)
Jean Taylor
(-2006)
Annie Thompson who was a Eucharistic Minister
Jean
Thompson who was the Minister of the Evangelical Union Church, Ardrossan
Mary Timmons
Peter Timmons
Willie
Timpany who was a passkeeper
Frank Tracey
John
Tracey
John Walsh
Margaret Whiston
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