Cathedral News

The annual Solemn Novena to Our Lady of Perpetual Help begins on Monday 13 February 2017, and runs until Tuesday 21 February. There are six sessions each day, as follows: Monday-Saturday: 07:45, 11:00, 13:10, 15:30, 19:30, 21:00 Sunday: 09:00, 10:30, 12:30, 16:30, 18:30, 20:00

Foundress of the Sisters of Charity of St Joseph, the first sisterhood native to the United States, and first person born in the United States to be canonised.

St Edmund Campion (1540-1581), Jesuit missionary to England, canonised in 1970 as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

A sung service of prayer for the solemnity of St Nicholas, patron of the Cathedral, and of Galway city, takes place in the Cathedral on Tuesday 6 December at 7:30pm.

Christmas is one of the most joyful seasons of the church year, and is celebrated in the Cathedral with appropriate solemnity. Here are details of the various events taking place at this time. Here also are details of confessions in the days before Christmas.

The Three Tenors will sing a concert in the Cathedral on Saturday 3 December 2016 at 8:00pm.

The A Capella Knights sing two concerts in the Cathedral on Sunday 11 December 2017, with proceeds going to the Galway Simon Community.

St Laurence O'Toole (Lorcán Ua Tuathail) lived from 1128 until 1180, and was Archbishop of Dublin. His remains lie in Eu, in Normandy.

Feast day: 15 October

A charity concert, in aid of Lauralynn Children's Hospice, will be given by Aimee Banks in the Cathedral on Saturday 1 October 2016 at 8:00pm.