Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound ...

Xavier Pallas plants his feet on the belfry floor, grips the rope, and with one tug fills the lush Spanish valley below with the reverberating peal of a church ... out old bell ringers, or their ...

However its 100-year-old ... ringing of the bell, the congregation clapped and cheered. Canon Noel McGahan, parish priest of Clogher, said it was a very significant occasion in the history of the ...