The funeral will take place this morning of Brother Kevin Crowley, the founder of the Capuchin Day Centre who died earlier this week at the age of 90 ... Br Kevin reposed all day yesterday at St Mary of ...
Br Kevin Crowley was a “fearless and tireless advocate” for the most vulnerable in society and a man with a “generous, passionate heart”, the funeral of the late Capuchin Friar has heard ... [ Br Kevin Crowley obituary.
In 1968 Br Kevin Crowley arrived at the Capuchin Friary on Church Street in Dublin to take charge of the clothing distribution unit there but he soon realised that the people using the unit were in desperate need of much more than clothes.
Some of the people who have received welcome, food and shelter at Dublin’s Capuchin Day Centre over the last half-century were among those came to pray and spend some final, quiet time with its founder, Br Kevin Crowley, on Friday.
Br Kevin Crowley, who died on Wednesday aged 90, was remembered as “a champion of the poor” and a man who “saved many lives” at the Capuchin Day Centre he founded more than 55 years ago.