He served as an altar boy at St Patrick's Chapel in Pennyburn, close to their home.

BBC: Northern Ireland

The priest was in charge of the altar boy program at an Oxnard church.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Prosecutors said Monday the former altar boy whom Avery admitted molesting in the church sacristy is scheduled to take the witness stand this week.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

It centers on a moral crusade Sister Aloysius launches against Flynn who she suspects of taking an unhealthy interest in Donald Miller, his altar boy and the school's only black student.

CNN: Streep leaves no 'Doubt' with 'tooth and nail' acting

And growing up in Glasgow as a young Catholic, you could have this experience of holy communion and confirmation and being an altar boy, the sacraments and the duties of Catholicism, but yet there wasn't a novel in which that world was reflected.

WSJ: The Novelists

The chant marks the annual Christmas Vigil, and is sung by a boy or girl accompanied by two or more altar boys or girls.

UNESCO: Culture