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Fr Frank Meagher

Father Frank Meagher was an ordinary Glaswegian, who worked in the shipyards before following his vocation. Since he had left school with few qualifications, he was sent to Campion House in Osterley, to "brush up" and learn Latin. This house of study and formation was run by Jesuits and was aimed at men who lacked the entrance qualifications for the major seminaries. Much to his amusement, it was not the Latin but the English language that hindered Frank in his studies. He burned the midnight oil on more than one occasion, remarking that he was like the apostles who worked all night and caught nothing. Frank had a great ability to laugh at himself. He then attended St Peter's College, Cardross, where he successfully completed his six-year course in philosophy and theology and was ordained in Glasgow in June, 1960. He was in the same class as Bishop Joseph Devine of Motherwell.

Frank enjoyed appointments in parishes all over Glasgow and the west of Scotland. He was a curate at St Patrick's, Dumbarton, St Teresa's, Possilpark, St Ninian's, Knightswood, Holy Cross, Crosshill, and St Eunan's, Clydebank, before becoming a parish priest in the Gorbals and Cumbernauld.

Full story at The Herald.