To mark our anniversary, we have invited 50 Catholics to choose a person from the past 175 years whose life has been a personal inspiration to them and an example of their faith at its best Born in Ireland in 1868, Vincent McNabb lived and worked all his life in the English Domini­can Province. Prior to death, in 1943, the arrangements he made for his funeral were typical of the man and the preacher. He requested that, instead of an ordinary (expensive) coffin and hearse, his remains be placed inside a crude wooden box, and carried in a builder’s lorry. “I know”, he remarked, “what some people will say: ‘That’s McNabb and his play-acting, showing off.’ But it isn’t that. All my life I have preached, and I shall preach even with my dead