Elias Lynch

Fr Elias Lynch (1897–1967) was the founder of the National Shrine of Saint Jude in England He was a Carmelite Friar.

Ireland
Elias  was his religious name as he was baptised as 'Murtagh' in a family of eleven other children. Elias later described himself as a child of the "soil" and was born in the farming community of Wicklow, Ireland.