The Prayer Room in Manresa was built in 1992.  It incorporates the five stained glass windows by Evie Hone (1894-1955) which were in the Jesuit house at Rahan near Tullamore.  Evie Hone was born into
a family of distinguished Irish artists.  She was a descendent of Joseph Hone, a brother of Nathaniel Hone.  At the age of eleven she became partially lame from infantile paralysis.  A visit to Assisi in 1911 made a profound impression on her.  In 1921, together with her friend Mainie Jellett (1897-1944), she became a pupil of the cubist painter Albert Gleizes, who had turned increasingly to religion.  Today Evie Hone's reputation rests largely on the expressive intensity of her stained glass output, but she was an artist who closely involved herself in the Irish art scene in a number of ways.