-43- R3f. i *18LMI fleJLSfflU Ihe third Bewtowner to be raised to the priesthood, .Father Manna was bom on July 11, 1906, son of Jsaes tfoKenna and Georgia* aoiailan.. Bo attended St. 2unstan»s from 1920 to 1925* graduating in the latter year, % studied theology at the Grand Seminary, Ciuebeo, and was ordained at Iona on June 9. 1929* by Bishop Iouis Q'leary. •2he senaon on this occasion was preached l^y Rev, A. L. Jinnott, liollo Say. 33» following Sunday, June 16, ho celebrated his First i *>lenn Align i &as at St- :iiohaol«s Church, crith the serraon coins given by Rev , iliohael Francis. For the first three Exmths following ordina¬ tion, Father i 3cXenna assisted at St. Dunatan»s lasilica. lb then went to Xignish as curate, refining until iteoember, 1931, On that date he v/as naiaed a&niinistrator as ;it. risk's,, Lot 7. and in august, 1932, v/aa appointed pastor of that parish, lere he remained until 1936. tfhen he was transferred to ^usimerfield. In 1940, he was posted to &orell where he continued as pastor until 1955, ^n that year he again went i '/est and assumed duties as pariah priest of Alberton where he is presently labouring.4 Although still young. Father ■MoKsnna can look back upon thirty-three yoars in the priesthood, lb is a nephew of the late Rev, V /iiliam 2&iKcnna, whose name appears earlier. ; ■ , asw oiwivj hoghs Jbe elder of two priest cons of Joseph 2oobe and Srama Kooney , Fatter ISdaiund was born in Sons in 1919* fe also has a sister in the Personal letter from Father LScXenna , i 'ferch, 1962.