"The multiplicity of feasts is in fact quite a modern development, and that the guardian angels were not honoured with a special feast in the early Church is no evidence that they were not prayed to and reverenced."
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Thomas Patrick Gilmartin
Thomas Patrick Gilmartin (18 May 1861 – 14 October 1939) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Clonfert and as the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Tuam.
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