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REMEMBERING Matt Talbott By Mary Purcell
Soft-covered, 141 pages

This Edition Published 1990 by Veritas Publications, 7-8 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1
First Published 1954 by M.H. Gill & Sons Ltd., Dublin
Copyright Mary Purcell 1954, 1990
Brief From Back Cover: Matt Talbot worked in a Dublin timber yard at the turn of this century. At an early age he became addicted to alcohol but he later experienced a conversion and went on to live a life of asceticism and sanctity.

Mary Purcell, the doyenne of religious biographers, has charted the life of Matt Talbot with integrity and clarity. The Dublin of a hundred years ago, with its poverty and pomp uneasily juxtaposed, becomes vividly alive. Matt's progress from a drunk to a person of extraordinary sanctity and of unusual learning for a person with very little formal education, is compellingly related. Mary Purcell succeeds in making his story come alive in an aspiring annd readable fashion.