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Tag: Who was Edmund Ignatius Rice (Blessed)?

  • Edmund Ignatius Rice (Blessed)

    Blessed Edmund (1762 – 1844) was born into a farming family, the sixth of nine children at Callan, Co Kilkenny, Ireland. Edmund received a good education as well as religious instruction within his home from an Augustinian Friar. In his teens, Edmund joined his uncle who had a successful merchant business in Waterford transporting goods…