He taught in two Jesuit schools,  Clongowes Wood College and Belvedere College and was ordained in 1908. His prayerful nature took him into Retreat Ministry and he sought to bring The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola to as wide an audience as possible. He volunteered as a Chaplain in the First World War where his time in the war saw him demonstrate great acts of heroism. He died attempting to save injured soldiers from the battlefield at Ypres in 1917 and his death came as a great blow to those who had known him. The cause for his canonisation has become increasingly popular in recent times.

Patrick Corkery is an Irish Jesuit from Cork, currently working in Gonzaga College SJ, Dublin.  His studies for the priesthood have brought him to spend time in the United Kingdom and the United States. He is the author of St Ignatius of Loyola: A Convert’s Story.