Bishop Doody’s pyx restored to diocese

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14 March 2004

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Bishop Doody’s pyx restored to diocese

Bishop Doody’s gold pyx

An unusual gold pyx which belonged to Bishop Edward Doody (Bishop of Armidale 1948–1968) has been returned to the Armidale diocese.

The pyx was fashioned from a medallion Bishop Doody had won for academic achievement in 1918.

He had it made into a pyx in 1940, eight years before he was appointed Bishop of Armidale.

It has been returned to the diocese by Fr Frank Leonard, a former parish priest of Wallangarra and now retired in Toowoomba.

The pyx was made from a gold Thallon Medallion, created in 1912 in honour of James Forsyth Thallon, a Queensland Railways worker who became Commissioner for Railways in 1902. He remained in the position until his death in 1911.