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THE STORY OF FATHER ANTHONY O'TOOLE[ToC]
On the wall of the Island Chapel there is a tablet which strangers read curiously. The inscription runs:
Father Anthony O'Toole
FOR THIRTY YEARS THE SHEPHERD OF
HIS FLOCK
Died 18th December 1812
Aged 80 years.
'He will avenge the blood of his servants, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people.'
Many a time has a summer visitor asked me the meaning of the Old Testament words on the memorial tablet of a life that in all probability passed so quietly.