Thursday, 20 April, 1916
Holy Thursday 1 went to Mass at 10.30
after lunch went to town to do some
shopping & visit the Churches. 2
Got home just at dinner hour
very tired.
Received wire by telephone from
G.P.O. at 8.30 to say Marie
was starting that day from
Malta. She evidently got very
short notice as in her last letter
she seemed settled down to stay
till the end of her term.
Editorial Notes1The Thursday of Christianity's Easter week commemorating the Last Supper of Jesus Christ with the Apostles.
2A Christian tradition of visiting seven churches on Holy Thursday.
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General Post Office
General Post Office of Dublin and headquarters of the Irish rebels during the Easter Rising. Padraic Pearse, commander of the rebels read out a proclamation of independence on the steps of the building. The G.P.O was the scene of heavy fighting and was eventually abandoned by the rebels as fire raged uncontrollably. Marie Helena Martin
Born 25 April 1892 and died 27 January 1975. Marie Helena was Mary Martin's daughter and worked in Malta and France as a VAD nurse during the First World War. In 1937 she founded the religious order Medical Missionaries of Mary. Malta
Mediterranean island south of Sicily and part of the British Empire. Marie Martin served there as a VAD from October 1915 to April 1916. | 
