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2 unusual facts about Sir John Bourke of Brittas


Sir John Bourke of Brittas

He is the grandfather of John Bourke, Mayor of Limerick, who was the great-grandfather of Edmund Burke.

During the short lull in the persecutions he openly attended Divine Service at St. Mary's Cathedral, temporarily restored to the Catholics, and was received together with his family and retainers, into the Dominican Confraternity of the Holy Rosary.



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