By Richard C. Dujardin
NARRAGANSETT, R.I. -- Former Gov. J. Joseph Garrahy will be given the St. Thomas More Medal of Virtue posthumously at the end of Mass honoring the martyred 16th-century lawyer-saint Sunday at 10 a.m. at St. Thomas More Church at 53 Rockland St. Garrahy died Jan 24, 2012.
The chief celebrant of the Mass will be Cardinal Edwin O'Brien, the Vatican-based Grand Master of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
Also on tap for the parish feast is a Eucharistic procession through the streets of Narragansett slated for 11 a.m. with a benediction at noon; and, from 4 to 9 p.m. Saturday, June 29, rides and games at Veterans Park near the Narragansett Towers, with music by a Beach Boys tribute band, the Driftwoods