Gerald McCabe was born and educated in Ireland. He was ordained in Kilkenny specifically for missionary work the Archdiocese of St Andrews and Edinburgh in 1947.

His first Parish was the Immaculate Conception in Bathgate where he served as assistant Priest from 1947 until 1961. He was then posted to Kilsyth again as assistant Priest to Thomas Canon McGarvie and he worked here in St Patrick's from 1961 to 1968.

In 1968 he was transferred to Gorebridge where he served from 1968 to 1972.

The last record we currently have is his appointment in 1972 to Our Lady of Lourdes in Dunfermline.

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