School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)

Location:
Errew, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Brígid Nic Eoin
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  1. There was once a woman in my district and she went to mass every day. She said she would put a stone in a box every morning she would attend mass.
    She went to mass every day for a year and at the end of the year she looked in the box to see how many stones were in it and there was only one.
    She was wondering why there was only one stone in the box and an angel appeared to her and told her that she had only heard one mass properly during the year and that is why the one stone was in the box.
    heard one mass = heard one mass =
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid King
    Gender
    Female