A STATUE of Celtic founder Brother Walfrid has been erected at the entrance to the football club’s home in Parkhead. It shows the Marist Brother seated with a book in his hand as if teaching a class of children as he did for almost 30 years in the east end of Glasgow during the later 19th century. A unveiling on November, Archbishop Mario Conti blessed the nine-foot high bronze statue, which was funded by Celtic supporters from around the world...

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Born in 1840 in the village of Ballymote, in County Sligo, Andrew Kerins took the religious name Brother Walfrid when he joined the Marist order in 1864. It was six years earlier, in 1858 that the Society of Mary had arrived in Glasgow and founded St Mungo’s Academy...

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