The Passionist Congregation at Mount Argus in Dublin, home of the shrine of St Charles of Mount Argus who was canonised in 2007, is planning a major sale of contents from their old monastery this week. The contents of their monastery will be auctioned, with over 600 lots been sold.
Among the items going under the hammer are an embroidered copy of the stations of the cross, an 18th century oil painting of Mary Magdalene, as well as an assortment of clocks from the monastery.
One of the more unusual items from the sale is a 3m tall grandfather clock made in the 1880s by a Christian Brother.
The monastery, built in 1863, was vacated last December when the community of eighteen Passionists moved to a newly constructed monastery on the grounds, on the other side of their car park.
Speaking this week Fr Pat Sheridan, c.p., said, “that while they will miss living in such a monastery, the running costs were astronomical .”
He said, however that he does not expect the order to make much from the sale.
The move to the new monastery has not had any impact on the popular church, within which is the resting place and shrine of St. Charles, a Passionist priest who ministered in Dublin in the 1800s and who was canonised by Pope Benedict on June 3, 2007.
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